Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT
REPORT FOR WEST END WARD WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 12 JUNE 2017
Riverside Esplanade/Riverside Drive (Tay Road Bridge off ramp to 75m along Riverside Drive) – westbound nearside lane closure for 23 weeks to facilitate V&A construction works.
SSE Glenagnes Cable Renewal – Lochee Road lane restrictions and closures on Blinshall Street, Fleuchar Street and Scott Street for 6 weeks.
A85 Riverside Drive – prohibition of right turn from westbound lane of Riverside Drive into Riverside approach and prohibition of right turn from Riverside Approach in to Riverside Drive from Monday 12 June for 26 weeks for works to the sea wall. Prohibitions will only be in place when required.
Perth Road (at River Crescent) – temporary traffic lights from Wednesday 14 June for 4 weeks for sewer remedial works.
Guthrie Street (Horsewater Wynd to Blinshall Street) – closed on Sunday 18 June for BT manhole repair works.
Forthcoming Roadworks
Roseangle (Perth Road to Seabraes Court) – closed from Tuesday 20 June for 5 working days for SGN connection works.
Ancrum Road (Charleston Drive to Logie Street) – closed from Monday 3 July for 2 weeks for carriageway resurfacing works.
Torrential rain triggers disaster in southwest China
Continuous torrential rain since Friday has left 40,000 people with damaged property in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
Heavy rain lashed 142 townships, swamping farmland, damaging houses, forcing evacuation of 295 people and causing direct economic losses estimated at 18.3 million yuan (2.7 million U.S. dollars).
The local civil affairs department is investigating the disaster and sending relief goods to affected areas.
Rain hit most parts of China’s central, eastern and southern regions over the weekend. China Central Meteorological Station Monday morning maintained rainstorm alerts for a third consecutive day in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and Guizhou provinces.
Typhoon Merbok, the second typhoon of the year, is forecast to hit the southern province of Guangdong Monday evening, intensifying rainstorms in southern and eastern provinces.
Recording of the week: an encounter with an orangutan
This week's selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds.
Coming face to face with a wild orangutan is something most nature lovers can only dream about. In this evocative interview extract, wildlife sound recordist John Paterson vividly describes a chance encounter with a curious female in Borneo's Danum Valley.
An encounter with an Orangutan_John Paterson (C1627_3)
Orangutan illustration from Brehms Animal Life (courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
These critically endangered primates can only be found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra and are the subject of several conservation programmes whose work attempts to counter the effects of poaching, habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade.
More interviews with wildlife sound recordists, from scientists to hobbyists, can be found here.
Follow @CherylTipp and @soundarchive for all the latest news.
Ministry of Culture issues five-year poverty relief plan
China’s Ministry of Culture has issued a plan calling for targeted poverty alleviation in the cultural field during 2016-2020.
The plan, for the 13th Five-Year Plan period, comes as the country aims to create a moderately prosperous society by 2020, with a key goal to eradicate poverty.
It focuses on artistic creation, modern public cultural services, protecting cultural heritage and development of the cultural industry in poor regions.
Guided by the socialist core values, the ministry said it would step up support in policy and finance, primarily targeting ethnic minority regions, border regions, old revolutionary base areas and concentrated poverty areas.
The central budget will allocate 3,000 yuan (over 441.35 U.S. dollars) for individual theatrical performances to be held every two months in townships in these regions.
There were 43.35 million people living in poverty in China at the end of 2016.