Road Safety at the West End Campus

Sign outside the West End Campus

This afternoon along with my ward colleague, Fraser Macpherson, and a number of concerned parents and council officers I visited the West End Campus to see the car parking issues at the end of the school day at Balgay Hill Nursery, St Joseph's Primary and Victoria Park Primary.  A number of parents have raised concerns with me about road safety around the schools.

We did see some very poor parking - some of which was unsafe.  It is important that people are considerate of others when dropping off or picking up children from school.  Everyone needs to act responsibly and safely.  Along with others I have asked for consideration to be given for the barrier on Blackness Road to be extended to whole length of the school and for the barrier into the school to be repaired.  I think that we need to look at waiting restrictions and enforcement in the surrounding streets.

There are options for parking slightly further away but which would be much safer than some of the current situations.  Essentially we all need to look at what we can do to make the environment near the school safer.