BALDERNOCK COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Our Concerns about our Roads

A Really Harrowing Experience

Last year we had to remove our possesions from a wee cottage we sold up North. We set off with our old trailer piled high to groan delicately back down to Bardowie.
The weather was awful, blowing full gales from the East with hammering rain added.

The heavy trailer swayed and teetered and generally kept the blood pressure at high to max.
Through the roads of:

  • Moray
  • Buchan and Banff
  • Aberdeen
  • Angus
  • Dundee
  • Perth
  • Stirling
  • and even Denny and Falkirk
the surfaces were fine; the wind and rain tore at us but at least we rolled smoothly along.

Then we entered East Dunbartonshire and really came down with a bump.

The surfaces are just a continuous series of inept patches, appalling bumps and high or low stanks. Hardly a yard of smooth tarmac from Kilsyth to Bardowie.

There is evidence everywhere of swarms of Connect vans carrying one or two people expensively clad in non-working fluorescent clothes, to sit idly by road works.
Such works usually involve something such as embedding a million red bricks to calm the traffic.

If there are prizes

for the most ineffective spending of council tax on roads,

they must be ours.