January 8 2025

An infrastructure committee at Dundee City Council has approved a £11.2m tender by McLaughlin & Harvey to erect a 'transformational' green transport hub.

Located at a multi-storey car park on Bell Street the project would involve the installation of electric vehicle charging points together with solar panels and battery storage. Works would also extend to a full mechanical and electrical cladding, new cladding and incorporation of a cycle store and bike re-use centre on the ground floor.

Landscaping work around the car park will also be undertaken to improve active travel links.

Financed through a combination of the council's capital budget, Transport Scotland and the UK Levelling Up fund the work seeks to help the city attain net zero carbon emissions by 2045.

A project start should be made later this month for completion in September.

7 Comments

#1 Posted by David Hall on 8 Jan 2025 at 18:22 PM

Complete waste of money.
Thought that the levelling up fund was for improving peoples lives.?
Maybe spend money on the right things not an SNP vanity project

#2 Posted by Mark on 8 Jan 2025 at 18:45 PM

#1 - In exactly the same way that the Levelling Up Fund was a Tory vanity project?

#3 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 8 Jan 2025 at 19:10 PM

The building won't make it to 2045.
Build cost was £5mill in Feb 24 -- surely scope creep can't be that much out of control?
Plus the PV solar power from the top floor will be very underwhelming for any level of BEV recharging.
Bonkers mental plan that reeks of a student's lunch -- go big to spend other people's money.

#4 Posted by John p on 8 Jan 2025 at 19:15 PM

I agree, total waste of money, what about people who can't afford an electric car

#5 Posted by Shatner's Bassoon on 9 Jan 2025 at 11:28 AM

@4 Not really sure what your point is? They will go to a petrol station as normal.

#6 Posted by Dr Who on 9 Jan 2025 at 14:54 PM

Have we entered a time slip? -

"A project start should be made later this month...."

Its been on site for at least 6 months already?

#7 Posted by Lovely on 9 Jan 2025 at 22:35 PM

‘What about people who can’t afford an electric car?’- they will need to simply get poorer and will also find it more and more difficult to go about their business.

Meanwhile vast swathes of public money will be put into facilitating expensive vanity projects like this.

The real environmental concerns of ongoing pointless consumerism, corporatism, resource depletion, consequent wars and pollution, human degradation, species death, lack of community and low quality of life will not be addressed, in fact are worsened by projects like this.

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