24/1/2012 - – Train services post and Fairtrade page added
Welcome to the Lenzie Community Council website. The aim of this site is to provide an information channel between the Council and the community. The event calendar will tell you of upcoming events organised by the Council, or by other organisations when they tell us (all dates highlighted in grey). You can find Council Minutes, which will give you a blow-by-blow account of deliberations. Topics of special or current interest are covered in individual posts as they arise. The Links page takes you to external websites where there are items of interest. You can send us comments using the ‘contact us’ form. And, finally, go to the ‘archive’ (under Event Calendar) to check older items that have been displaced by newer posts.
Changes are afoot in train services from Lenzie and, if you are a train traveller you have only a little time left to have your say in two major public consultations on trains. A recent presentation in Lenzie on the Glasgow-Edinburgh Improvement (EGIP) programme gave information about possible benefits for Lenzie commuters to Glasgow, but raised some questions about other destinations such as Edinburgh and Stirling. Improvements in travel to Glasgow might be at the expense of more train changes at Croy and less direct station-to-station trains.
At the same time, Transport Scotland is running a consultation, Rail 2014 on the future of rail across Scotland. This also raises the concept of ‘Interchange Stations’ (eg Croy) and the role such stations could play in making it easier for local services to get out of the way of faster, Inter-City services, such as Glasgow-Edinburgh. There’s obviously a balance to be struck and this is reflected in the Consultation question Should the number of services making use of interchange stations be increased to reduce the number of direct services? If you value the direct Edinburgh and Stirling trains we currently have, make sure Transport Scotland knows.
The EGIP consultation finishes at the end of January but you have until 20th February for the Rail 2014 consultation.
Lenzie is now officially on track to become a Fairtrade Town. A Group has been formed and has held three meetings.
Plans are being laid to take part more fully in Fairtrade Fortnight in February this year. Go to the Fairtrade Page and the Calendar for more information.
The 2012 New Year Jog in Lenzie broke all previous records for numbers taking part by about a third. There were 308 entrants split between the short route, the 4.5k route and the two-lap 9k run. The weather was judged to be a significant factor. It was certainly very cold and slightly damp at times, but there was no snow and ice. This was a welcome relief to the organisers, as 2010 Jog was cancelled due to ice on the track and 2011 only went ahead with a route curtailment and after sterling work with shovels and salt on part of it.
The event was, as always, a combined effort of Kirkintilloch Olympians running club and Lenzie Community Council. There were many more ‘teams’ this year from as far away as Kilmarnock among other places and Lenzie Rugby Club was also represented.
If you were a runner and want to know your time, look in the Kirkintilloch Herald next week.
Opening hours for Lenzie Library have been reduced. It is no longer open on Wednesdays and there are other reductions.
See timetable for the full schedule.
The pressure to reduce hours is not going to go away, given the need for East Dunbartonshire Council to cut budgets, but you can help to maintain the good wee library we have by visiting it as often as you can.
East Dunbartonshire Council is currently running a survey to find out how to improve library services and you can contribute to that by clicking survey.
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