Road safety enhancements, including new signs, markings, and anti-skid surfacing, are being introduced across South Lanarkshire following the allocation of nearly half a million pounds from a Scottish Government fund. The council has received £496,642 from a national £10 million road safety investment fund, distributed among local authorities to support essential safety projects aimed at […]
With children off school this week, a reminder to drivers to take care when driving on busier streets. This follows an incident on Glasgow Road earlier this week where a young boy ran out into the road, away from the crossing point and oblivious to a passing car. Thankfully an accident was avoided mostly due […]
Further work has recently recommenced to improve road safety at the EK Expressway sliproad, High Blantyre. Large directional arrows have been installed at the end of the B7012 Hamilton Road, making it clearer to turn on to Stoneymeadow Road, rather than travelling up the wrong direction of the sliproad! The work follows community concerns about […]
Public complaints about the safety of Blantyre’s A725 Sliproads have promptly been upheld by South Lanarkshire Council with a programme of action now proposed. This followed a fatality last year and several instances of people driving up the sliproads in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic. Our petition has now incredibly been signed by 814 […]