Katesgrove Lib Dems

On-street recycling: at last the penny has dropped!

Well, it's only taken 3 years since I first suggested it, as almost every other town, city or town aspiring to be a city has them.

I'm talking about on-street recycling bins.  A trial running at the Christchurch Road shops and at Shinfield Road has been successful (as predicted) and the second half of March will see the bins appearing at other shopping parades including, I'm pleased to say, the Whitley Street shops.

Yet another idea that's come from us that has (eventually) been taken up.

The question is: why does it take so long for Reading Borough Council to do these things?  In fact, why does it take them so long to do anything at all where recycling is concerned?

More anon on the answer to that question.

London Street contraflow bus lane closure

I've just been advised that the contraflow bus/cycle lane on London Street is to be closed overnight next Tuesday to allow for emergency repairs to a water main.

The exact timing of the closure is 9.00p.m. on Tuesday 9 March 2010 to 5.00 a.m. Wednesday 10 March 2010.

I await with interest what effect this has on the increasingly annoying illegal and dangerous parking around the Tesco Express store, on which I long for some serious enforcement action.