REVERSE PEDESTRIANISATION IN HUDDERSFIELD
A call by a Huddersfield Trader, backed by the Conservatives seems to want to turn back the clocks. At the council meeting a petition was presented and the petitioner called for pedestrianisation to be reversed and for cars to be brought back into the shopping streets.
Not that strange as it echo's a call made only last year by the Huddersfield Examiner.
It was claimed that by letting cars take over the streets, shops would flourish. It does seem a novel idea, when nearly every town and city is calling for more pedestrianisation. But would it work? Many will not be able to remember our large towns with traffic on the main streets, it was bad enough then, but now there are 10 times more cars on the road, can anyone imagine what a shopping trip would be like. I suppose there may be some that believe dodging cars an entertainment or sport. It will mean the end to street cafes.
The obsession with the car ignores all those who travel by bus or train, or indeed live in the town centre. One has to imagine what parking would be like in this traffic "Free for all". I'm not against experimentation and I realise America have just chosen to ignore global warming and destroy the planet, but I did believe the debate on pedestrianisation had been won. Do Huddersfield traders want to drive more customers to Shopping Malls, where you think they would have noticed cars are not allowed onto the Malls.
What other steps do the conservatives want us take back into the past, we know they want to destroy the NHS and want to stop the rich having to pay taxes, we will have to wait and see.
