A computer-generated image produced by Renfrewshire Council of what the new bridge between Clydebank and Renfrew is expected to look like once it s complete A £79.5 million contract for a controversial new bridge providing a direct road link between Clydebank and Renfrewshire has been approved. Members of Renfrewshire Council s finance board awarded the Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside contract to civil engineering firm GRAHAM. Building work is expected to start in the spring on the link – Scotland s first opening road bridge – which will provide direct road access between Renfrew and the boundary between Clydebank and Glasgow. The project, first mooted in 2014, is being jointly funded by the UK and Scottish Governments as part of the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region s city deal initiative.
Money from West Dunbartonshire s licensing budget was used to pay for police officers overtime to monitor taxi ranks in busy areas at the weekends ALTERNATIVE funding methods must be found by West Dunbartonshire Council to secure the future of its festive safety scheme this year. Welbeing initiative Night Zone West (NZW) was launched in 2014 and designed to keep local people safe during the festive season through the employment of “marshals” at taxi ranks in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Alexandria. In 2016/2017 Scottish Government community funding was cut which meant there would be no taxi marshals that year; instead, funding was secured from the licensing budget, which paid for police officers’ overtime to allow for an additional police presence in the main town centre areas of West Dunbartonshire.