Third Don Crossing

Dougie’s Election 5

On……Third Don Crossing

I was out walking one day

and as I was passing the Zoology Building

(near the new University Library)

I saw yet another traffic jam

There are often jams at this roundabout

usually heading towards King Street

but this time it was heading all the way up into Tillydrone

Later I learned that there had been

an accident on Great Northern Road

and the traffic had been re-routed through Tilly

‘That’ says I, ‘is the problem with the Third Don Crossing.’

The new bridge will deliver 1000s of cars to this point

it can’t go left to King Street

or go up Bedford Road

but must go up to St. Machar roundabout

creating what one commentator described as a

‘second Haudigan’

Thanks a lot.

The whole idea of the new crossing

comes from the

‘something must be done’ mindset

And fair enough

but this scheme simply won’t work

and even if it did

it isn’t fair

Woodside has already got more than its fair share of the city’s traffic

The Ring Road, the main road north, as well as the notorious Haudigan

Give us a break.

The traffic will go from St. Machar

up towards Cairncry to the Ring Road

completing a circuit

which will create an inner city M25

around – broadly- what we call ward 5

(Woodside, Hilton, Stockethill, Cornhill)

And,

as a great lover of the river Don,

plough through one of the most beautiful bits of meadowland

in the city

If I am elected,

I will do all in my power

To resist this bridge.