Living in a fairly quiet part of Scotland, where the police are more concerned with sheep rustling and suchlike means that the local council can generally do what it wants. The wee local Town, the great and the good stated needs to be remodelled and helped. All very laudable and certainly not before time that money was spent on Maybole. The dearth of shops, which is a phenomena of many Towns and Cities, small and large means the Town Centre as such is deader than the dead parrot in the monty python sketch.
Now the great and the good decided to instal a traffic calming trial which means no one can park on the High Street. Immediately the "law of Unintended Consequences" has kicked in. No one apparently spoke to the few shops that are still open. Now no-one can deliver to those shops as they cannot park near them. This means the butcher cannot get restocked, as it would be a serious health concern if delivery drivers park up in the few offstreet car parks in the Town and carry the raw meat a minimum of 250m (that is if the delivery vehicles could actually get into that car park.) Is this what we pay our Council Taxes for? Did the Works, Planning and other Council Departments actually talk to each other? Or is it a case that one Department decided that "heck we are doing it anyway and we will call it a trial so if anything goes wrong its not our fault?" Surely its not outwith the wit of man to put in temporary Loading Bays and Disabled Parking Bays for the trial? Or is that too logical?
So for a month (that the trial is scheduled for) the shop keepers and disabled will have major issues. I seriously hope that some of the few remaining shops do not go under as the footfall is not great anyway and this "Trial" seems determined to drive the little footfall away too.
Watch this space
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