Yesterday, I attended the latest meeting of the City Council's School Parking and Pupil Safety Working Group.
Following the initial meeting of the group before the recent City Council elections, a number of site visits to schools have taken place and feedback from these - along with risk assessments of schools' parking and drop-off facilities across the city - were discussed yesterday.
I was keen to emphasise that drop-off and parking arrangements at the new West End schools project - on the former Logie Secondary site at Glenagnes Road/Blackness Road - must be fully resolved before St Joseph's Primary School, Park Place Nursery School and Park Place Primary School move to their new homes in October. There are a number of matters to be tackled in relation to this but the important thing is that we see much better facilities at the new site than in the current locations in Bellfield Street and Park Place.
After my two Monday ward surgeries (at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre), I had the pleasure of attending the latest committee meeting of the River Crescent Residents' Association, at which we discussed a number of local matters including vehicle speeds, road condition, the forthcoming Dundee WestFest events, Riverside Nature Park and local bus services.