School Crossing

This is a link to a presentation document PDF from East Dunbartonshire Council Roads:

Proposals presented by EDC Roads Dept to BWCC on Monday 26 Oct 2026 (PDF)

Background and History

March 2025 - East Dunbartonshire Council Decision

At Council Meeting on Thursday 6 Mar 2025, councillors were asked to consider Review of School Crossing Service

Meeting of East Dunbartonshire Council, Thursday, 6th March, 2025 5.30 pm (Item 3.)

Council Meeting: General Fund Revenue Budget 2025/26 & 30-Year Capital Investment Plan

Business Case (04) EDC/004/25/AD – Appendix 3(c)

Proposal Title: Review of School Crossing Service Date: 17/12/24

1. PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION

This business case aims to provide analysis and summary of the current resource and provision of School Crossings. The proposal offers some initial budgetary savings relating to long-term vacancies if these were to be removed. The proposal also considers the capital cost of replacing staff patrollers with mechanised crossings.

Council officers recommended “Option 4”

This option proposes the retention of all employed school crossing patrollers, 24no. in total, with the installation of an additional 15 mechanised crossing points at a capital cost of £750,000 and

an annual revenue cost of £15,000, to be added to the Roads & Neighbourhood Services budget to meet utility and maintenance costs for each mechanised crossing. School Crossing Patrollers

would be relocated from 6no. mechanised crossing locations to non-mechanised locations under this option. Relocation of school crossing patrollers would be implemented from the start of the

school term in August 2025.

Implementation of this option would deliver 23no. fully mechanised crossing locations with 24no. school crossing patrollers covering non-mechanised crossing points. Of the 59no. total crossing locations, 47no. would be either manned or mechanised, and 12no. would be unmanned/non-mechanised.

Furthermore, it is proposed that when existing school crossing patrollers retire or leave their position that these posts are removed from the structure, thereby delivering revenue savings on

a phased basis.

https://eastdunbarton.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s11491/03-BC04%20-%20Review%20of%20School%20Crossing%20Service.pdf

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At the meeting, councillors voted for:

(BC03) - Approve the implementation of Option 3 in the Review of School Crossing Patrol service.

Option 3

This proposal is similar to option 2 however under this option crossing patrollers would be retained at the 36 locations where crossing points are not currently mechanised and cannot be mechanised. School Crossing Patrollers would be relocated from the 6no. mechanised crossing locations to non-mechanised locations under this option.

A budget of £203,501 would require to be retained for 36no. School Crossing Patroller posts. With 24 posts currently filled, a further 12 School Crossing Patroller’s will be recruited to bring the complement of staff to the required number of 36. An additional revenue budget of £15,000 would be required to fund utility and maintenance costs for the 15 new crossing points.

The revenue cost to implement this option would be £218,501 requiring a total increase in budget of £77,501. The total capital cost to implement this option is estimated to be £750,000

NOTE: In this proposal, the School Crossing in Westerton was described as: "Maxwell Ave at Westerton Library" and "Unmanned"

16 Nov 2025 - First Announcement from Cllr Gallacher

From Facebook post on "Westerton" facebook group:

*Pedestrian crossing on Maxwell avenue*

At our budget East Dunbartonshire Council SNP said we'd introduce a new mechanised crossing on Maxwell Avenue at the Library to help kids get to school safely. Officers have told me that The works for this begin on Tuesday 18 November. This will last for roughly 2 weeks.

A 4 way temporary traffic signal will be used. At peak times these will be manually controlled.

18 Nov 2025 - Traffic Management

and Cones started being set up, with temporary signalled-controlled crossing lights set up across existing unmanned crossing point.

19 Nov 2025 - Trucks and diggers arrive

and start digging up road NORTH of Maxwell Avenue/Stirling Avenue junction (near village houses - NOT at Westerton Library, nor existing crossing site.

With disbelief, some local village house residents are told to move their cars NOW. The workers install cables (and retention sockets), electric boxes, and modify pavements to install Tactile surface.

Councillors confirmed that they did not receive detailed plans, nor were aware of change in location prior to the work starting.

25 Nov 2025 - Update from Cllr Gallacher:

(facebook)

**Maxwell Avenue Crossing site**

Many residents have contacted me expressing their worries that the new crossing isn't in the same location as it is at the moment

I asked officials to explain why they have had to move it to the junction of Stirling Avenue. The main reason is visability. This is the most visible spot.

There are reasons why they can't use the existing location. The reasons are:

- there is a gully which would need to be removed.

- the tree which is across from the railings at the bottom pf the hill has a Tree Prevervation Order as it is in a conservation area. This means it can't be removed or changed. Removing the gully could also impact this too. As the council can't remove the tree it obscures the visibility of pedestrians and drivers.

- Putting in the crossing further south would also have poor visibility because of the bend in the road.

I wanted to explain why the council bave moved the crossing.

26 Nov 2025 - Local People and Groups Halt further Work

Writing and contacting senior Council staff and Councillers, BWCC and other local groups point out the serious flaws with the proposed siting, and urge that the work STOPS immediately. Some local residents keep their cars parked strategically to prevent any further digging and work.

After many requests to Councillors, they eventually obtain some plans, to indeed confirm that Council Roads had indeed intended to site a mechanised crossing 3m NORTH of the Maxwell Ave/Stirling Ave junction - see drawing:

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