3 Weeks of Delays on Lenzie Road from Monday 9th March

Roadworks in the rain.

Drivers in Lenzie are being warned of three weeks of delays around Tom Johnston House as a result of work at the Southbank Link Road to construct a new junction. With a three way manually controlled system of traffic lights the Lenzie Road drivers are warned to avoid the area if at all possible. The work includes laying of kerbing, road surfacing, traffic signals and the protection and installation of services.

Councillor John Dempsey, Chair of the Kirkintilloch Traffic Liaison Group*, said, “The temporary traffic lights which will be put up outside Tom Johnston House will be manually controlled with two operatives on site between 7am-7pm. They will watch traffic movement and gauge queue lengths so that delays are minimised. In the long term the new junction will ease traffic flow and we would ask people who use this route to be patient over the next three weeks. Throughout 2009, there is a programme of major road works scheduled and the Group has been meeting regularly to co-ordinate things so that disruption is kept to a minimum. So far we have been able to avoid a number of clashes but inevitably there will be some works that need to take place at a certain point in time to ensure that progress continues to be made with the contract.”

The traffic chaos couldn't come at a worse time just a few months after Kirkintilloch was listed as a potential “ghost town” being amongst the Five Scottish towns likely to be the worst affected by the economic downturn by the business researcher Experian. The traffic queues have already seen a marked decrease in people using the shops in Kirkintilloch, and an increase in traffic using side roads to try and circumvent the queues.