Jill Hood attended a meeting at the Crown Hotel last night and sat in a seat near the window overlooking the High Street. She tells me that during the two hour meeting she counted 29 cars travelling down the street - some of them at very fast speeds.
I would guess that they were all using the street illegally. The High Street is a pedestrian zone 24 hours a day. It is completely closed to traffic at the top from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. but even outside those hours, access is limited to a very few types of use. No motorist is entitled to use the street as a short cut, or to use a cash point or pick up passengers or to collect a take-away. And parking in the street and the market square is prohibited at all times.
The police have been issuing fixed penalty tickets over recent months but cannot be present all the time. So I just hope the scheme to install rising bollards attracts sufficient funding to become a reality. The sooner the better!
I would guess that they were all using the street illegally. The High Street is a pedestrian zone 24 hours a day. It is completely closed to traffic at the top from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. but even outside those hours, access is limited to a very few types of use. No motorist is entitled to use the street as a short cut, or to use a cash point or pick up passengers or to collect a take-away. And parking in the street and the market square is prohibited at all times.
The police have been issuing fixed penalty tickets over recent months but cannot be present all the time. So I just hope the scheme to install rising bollards attracts sufficient funding to become a reality. The sooner the better!
