Work needed to make Bonnybridge blackspot road safer
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The report going before members at Tuesday’s meeting concerns the B816 Seabegs Road and plans to created a vehicle restraint system on the north side of the road to prevent vehicles entering the Forth and Clyde Canal.
At a meeting in March Provost Billy Buchanan stated he had obtained a quotation from George Walker Ltd for the sum of £112,523.96 for road safety improvements on the stretch of Seabegs Road, adjacent to the canal.
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Hide AdIt was noted in that meeting, however, back in 2013 the council’s development services staff had costed the works at around £3.1 million.
The report urges executive members to allow council officers to liaise with Scottish Canals to provide appropriate planting to stabilise their embankment adjacent to the
B816 Seabegs Road.
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