Wednesday, September 18, 2013

FURTHER INSTANCES OF BRIGG PEDESTRIAN ZONE ABUSE

We were beginning to think there had been a slight improvement in Brigg town centre's problems with vehicles that shouldn't be in the pedestrian zone.
Then we spotted a delivery vehicle come through and park up outside premises with a perfectly good rear entrance that could have been used instead.
As we've come to expect, there was no sign of "parking police" or representatives of the Humberside force.
A couple of days earlier we spied a cyclist weaving his way down Wrawby Street at some speed - riding bikes also being on the prohibited list in what's supposed to be  a safe haven for pedestrians.
The authorities don't seem to see abuses of our pedestrian zone as any sort of priority in terms of taking sufficient steps to ensure that offenders receive  property penalties. There's a lot of talk, from time to time, but the problem just drags on, as it has for years.
As we've said before, the quick way to sort it is to have a blitz on offenders and then to publicise how much it has cost them.

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