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This precinct proposal is a step too far
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From Stephen Ross.
I WRITE in response to the article (JEP, 8 November) concerning the Constable’s request to pedestrianise Halkett Street, south of Waterloo Street, which I do think is a step too far.
I wrote a few years ago sarcastically suggesting that he should do it after the mess created by reversing the traffic at the lower end of Halkett Street, outside Pizza Express. I never thought in my wildest dream that he would do it. How wrong I was.
Let me explain. The proposed road is a main road out of town. The volume of the traffic has increased due the Constable closing New Street off some years ago to traffic.
You now have to go left down Burrard Street, then right at Minden Place Car park and then down Beresford Street around the Central Market and along this very road to get out from the south, to go east through the tunnel, or west in front of the bus station.
I would strongly urge the Constable go back to his office and rethink this and take a long hard look at the proposal, before wasting over £1million of tax payers money at this current time to satisfy his desire for the biking public.
The Constable should embrace the slogan ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.
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