We keep banging on about the Brigg town centre pedestrian area being far from that, with many vehicles being encountered.
Today we spotted something new - a vehicle having to wait at the the top of Cary Lane to get into the Market Place because another van was parked in such a way that it couldn't get past.
Even when delivery vans and lorries have to visit town centre businesses without rear entrances, couldn't it be arranged so they did so before 8am or after 6pm?
This would leave the pedestrianised part of the town centre for the exclusive use of shoppers and visitors.
The worst category, though, remains people who can't be bothered to walk to cashpoints and insist on driving right up to the holes in the wall.
The other day we saw a moped rider dismount and push his machine into the Market Place to use a cashpoint. This is a good example of someone showing regard for the road signs which make it very clear what's not permitted to venture into the town centre.
We have CCTV, traffic enforcement officers and a police force, but how often is someone slapped with a fine for contravening the regulations designed to ensure Brigg is a haven for shoppers?
We may need to go back to the fundamentals, Nige.
ReplyDeleteThe road from Bridge St to Ancholm Way was sponsored by the EU as an enterprise road...a road to give access to the developing industrial area in AW.
Humberside decided to extend the scheme to make Barnard Ave a Brigg ring road.
My question is whether the re-routeing of the A18 was ever officially agreed by the MOT.
Similarly, was the old route - Wrawby/Bigby Streets - ever officially down-graded b4 making the area into a pedestrian zone?
This would certainly explain why prohibiting traffic is a constant problem - ?is it legally unenforceable?
Someone needs to examine what is in the legal documentation and what the Council and the MOT stated about the status of both Barnard Ave and the covered-over A18 of Wrawby St.
Once the legal status of the Market Place has been established, simple questions need to be asked...for example, why do HSBC staff et al have to cross the MP to park in the ?Ancholme courtyard, at the side the bank.....when there is a perfectly good double gate access from the Angel car-park?
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