Issue - meetings

The Forum noted that Officers had advised the Chair that works were now complete.

Outcome

The Forum noted the position and agreed to remove the item from the agenda.

The Forum noted that Officers had advised the Chair that they had engaged a contractor and are awaiting a suitable weather window for these works to start.

Outcome

The Forum noted the position.

The Forum noted the below as submitted in the absence of an  Officer from Roads;

Colintraive:  We are currently pulling together a list of additional road marking works in Cowal concentrating on junction marking refreshment and we will have this location included on these works. We have still to carry out the road marking work to our capital reconstruction sites for Bute and Cowal and this work will be done at the same time. The package of work will be issued before the end of November 2020 with the works to be done as and when the weather allows.

White Lining: We have added the training for using the road marking trailer to our training program which is collated and managed centrally by the HQ team at Lochgilphead for all of Operational services. There is a limited budget for training and so our training requirements are prioritised. Until we can gain the training we will continue to utilise the framework for road marking contractors. The trailer only allows for hand applied road markings and short lengths of edge and centre line to be placed such as give way, stop, disabled bays, parking bays, TRO’s, bus stops etc. For long lengths, generally greater than 200m, of edge and centre line this needs to be applied by machine which is done by line marking contractor.

Cairndow:  This did get missed the last time the road marking contractor was in the area despite requesting this to be done twice. We are currently pulling together a list of additional road marking works in Cowal concentrating on junction marking refreshment and we will have this location included on these works. We have still to carry out the road marking work to our capital reconstruction sites for Bute and Cowal and this work will be done at the same time. The package of work will be issued before the end of November 2020 with the works to be done as and when the weather allows.

Outcome

The Forum noted the position and agreed that give way lining should be prioritised as a matter of urgency due to ongoing safety issues at road junctions.

The Forum discussed the submitted response in relation to carriageway roundels and additional signage at Colintraive.

Discussion focused on the reasons why white lining was taking a long time to be completed which included that white liners are not all based in Argyll and the changeable weather effect this weather based operation. The options available around training up local council workers to use machines in the area was also  discussed.

The Forum noted that in Colintraive almost all works were complete other than the sharks teeth traffic calming measure but advised that works remained outstanding at both Glendaruel and Cairndow.

Outcome

The Forum;

1)    noted the position; and

2)    agreed that an update would be brought back to the Forum in relation to local options to have council staff trained in using a white lining trailer.

The Chair stated that the signage was there but the last time he had passed the roundels were still outstanding.

Outcome

The Forum noted the position.

In the absence of Roads Officers the Forum were provided with a written update on all matters previously raised and had additional information before them from casebook that roundels and signage had been approved for implementation in Colintraive,

Outcome

The Forum noted that the roundels and signage were still not in place and it was agreed that Chief Inspector Wilson would pursue this directly with Roads.

(Ref:  Casebook update re incident 190124-000836, submitted)