Call to speed up progress on crossing after OAP run over

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: August 15, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

RESIDENTS have renewed calls for a long-delayed pedestrian crossing after a pensioner was knocked down on a busy road.

The elderly woman was treated by paramedics after she was hit while crossing Colinton Road, near the Tesco Express store.

Now community leaders are demanding a crossing is installed, more than two years after it was promised. The crossing was supposed to be built as part of an agreement under which 170 flats were built on part of sports fields at nearby Meggetland.

Gordon Buchan, the councillor for Dalry and Fountainbridge, said the opening of the Tesco Express had led to ...

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