Almost exactly a year ago, the City Council advised that an electrical fault had developed in a significant number of the bus shelters and, as a result, real time bus information (RTI) was being switched off pending repairs.
It is of concern that, 12 months later, there are still some bus shelters without their RTI back on. This includes some shelters in Blackness Road where I have been requesting repairs, at the request of residents, for some time.
With regard to Blackness Road, I am pleased to have received this update late yesterday from the City Council's City Development Department :
"I can advise that the shelter at Blackness Road / Harrow Street was repaired on Friday, 4 February 2011. Unfortunately, the repair came just too late to be included in the batch of electrical certificates that were handed into my street lighting colleagues last Friday.
I was e-mailed today to say that the completion certificate for Harrow Street had been handed in this week. The shelter at Kelso Steps has also been repaired. The next stage is for ACIS (Real Time providers) to collect the certificates and attend the site so that the real time can be reactivated."
However, it is also important that those shelters still without their RTI switched back on see repairs undertaken as matter of urgency.