A market place such as ours could be used so well, for so many things including, dare I say – a market. It should be a meeting place for the community, a place to sit and talk, children to play, have a coffee, perhaps a drink. Licence the area and police it as they do on the continent and indeed in many places in the U.K. The council’s obsession with cars and supermarkets has, and continues to be the primary ruination of this town.
This is what we should be aiming for:
People sit outside for coffee and drinks all over the world; not just in the warmer climes - Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, even Moscow. All we need is the courage to make the change and make the most of what we have. Let's get rid of the cars and the trucks and the bloody taxis and make room for people.
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3 comments:
Cretin is just the word. Whose fault is it that, just a couple of months after the brick road around the market square was repaired, it has been dug up and tarmac has been used to fill the holes.
I like brick roads. They look good. They are expensive, and I think tarmac roads look better than brick roads with swathes of tarmac along them.
Why can't the council enforce these companies to put things back the way they were? If they can't enforce this when handing put the contracts, they never should have spent the money on the brick roads in the first place.
Bang on Jim
I've been going on about this for six years. By far the most productive course of action would be to ban cars from the whole of the market square and all of kirkgate and the cathedral area.
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