Cllr David MacDonald has posted on his facebook page -
3/3/2020
Cllr David Macdonald - An Independent voice for people
11 mins ·
Update. Busby Road chaos.
A reply from the Roads and Transportation coordinator to my earlier email to her is below.
It seems as if mistakes have been made and no safeguards have been sought or obtained by ERC prior to this work going ahead and that the council now state they are powerless to do anything.
Scottish Water, it seems, can do what they wish and not the council, councillors or citizens can do anything about it.
I am beyond disappointed.
My own view is different to this approach as I am sure many of you will appreciate.
Scottish water have commenced this section of the work without consulting the council and as such, the council view this unfavourably but cannot stop it now that it has started.
Should we all collectively ask Scottish Water to therfore compensate anyone who has been late for work, had to pay for extra childcare or who has missed important appointments due to the horrendous delay in traffic their little plan has caused?
I will of course be communicating my dismay and disappointment with Scottish Water directly.
They have created an absolute mess without any consideration at all for the people it has impacted upon.
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Hi Councillor Macdonald,
The works that are being carried out by Scottish Water are to repair a damaged sewer, unfortunately due to there being an open excavation the traffic management cannot be lifted during peak hours.
We have assurances from SW that they will manually control the traffic lights between the hours of 7.30am and 7pm and that the excavation will be reinstated and the road re-opened before peak time tomorrow.
Had we been notified or consulted in advance we would have insisted that these works be carried out during the weekend to minimise disruption.
As it stands just now we cannot suspend works immediately as you have suggested as the excavation needs to be made safe before the road can be re-opened.
The fact that we had no advance notification of these works will be raised with SW.
Our inspector will visit site tomorrow to check on progress with a view to ensuring works are completed and the road re-opened as soon as possible.
I understand how busy this road is and the frustrations the works have caused road users and as indicated above the matter will be raised with SW.
Regards
Roads & Transportation Controller
East Renfrewshire Council
Unit 2 Spiersbridge Business Park
Thornliebank
G46 8NG