Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT

REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2020

Union Place (nos 13 – 16) – closed (8.00am – 4.00pm) on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February for BT work.

Perth Road (at Union Place) – temporary traffic lights (8.00am – 4.00pm) on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February for BT work.

Magdalen Yard Road (at Taylors Lane) – off-peak temporary traffic lights on Friday 14 February for Scottish Water works.

Forthcoming Roadworks

West Marketgait (at Ward Road) – alternating north and southbound closures 22-24 February; 29 February – 2 March and 7-9 March for BT work.

Agencies on the ground as response to Storm Ciara continues

Multi-agency partners have been working in partnership overnight to respond to the impacts of Storm Ciara, clearing essential infrastructure to reduce the risk of flooding to homes.

Botanic Garden event later today! #dundeewestend

From the Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden :

Victoria George, Scottish plant hunters, is speaker at today’s Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden talk.

Victoria is a lecturer in horticulture at Dundee and Angus College.

She has a degree in Garden and Greenspace Design from Glasgow University, and wide interests in the field of horticulture.

The talk is in the Education Centre at the Botanic Garden at 2pm today – all welcome!

River Deep Mountain High – an exhibition

An exhibition to mark the Year of Coasts and Waters curated by Archive Services at the University of Dundee.

Artists, designers and creative writers were invited to respond to the University’s rich archive, museum and rare book collections on the themes of rivers, seas, coasts and mountains.

Original photographs, journals, plans, models and specimens relating to whaling, the River Tay, the natural world and mountaineering have inspired jewellery, artwork, sculpture, poetry and much more :

Education Minister opens anti-bullying young people’s forum

Pupils from 34 schools are taking part in the Anti-Bullying Young People’s Forum today in Parliament Buildings.