Tayside residents can have their say on how to improve transport in the area
The consultation runs until next Friday and could see the introduction of a Park and Chose
A public consultation on improving transport in the Perth to Montrose travel corridor is running until next Friday.
Run by Tactran, the Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership, the research is at its second stage as it looks to gather the publics view on proposed works.
Among the proposed works is a park and choose, which is similar to a park and ride but it also offers active travel. Alongside this, there is the possibility of reinstating some old train stations between Montrose and Perth.
Richard McCready is a Labour councillor at Dundee City council and also the chair of Tactran. He's telling us why it's important that people share their view's on how to improve transport in the area: "I'd encourage people to let us know what their views are and I think it's important that we do listen to what local people have got to say and we try and develop the services that people are looking for."
He added: "It's not a consultation for the sake of consultation. We'd really quiet like to do some of these things. We'd like to have the evidence that suggests that we can do these things."
On what the aim of the consultation is, Richard McCready said: "It's about trying to improve the environment. It's also about trying to make life a bit easier for those people who previously have been driving into out cities, to say to them, there's an easier option than this.
"Park up, choose how you get into the city. We'll make it easy for you, we'll try and make the last couple of miles an easier option for you that will give you opportunity's that are less stressful."
On how that will be done, he said: "Essentially, park and choose is giving people the opportunity to park their car and then choose another mode of transport. Hopefully, a more sustainable mode of transport, so that might be by bus, that might be by active travel, so that might be walking, it might be cycling. So walking, wheeling and cycling are the ones that we'd really like people to do."
He added: "We'd like to look at whether the places that you park might be at the railway stations that are currently there. But, also, perhaps to look at whether we can bring in new railway stations. It's happened in other parts of Scotland. Indeed probably not new railway stations but to reinstate some old railway stations."