Councillor slams active travel consultants who “dream up schemes more at home in large cities than small historic towns” Plans to create a “high-quality” cycling network in seven market towns were also dismissed as “mad and impractical” cycling
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“Not all the comments have been friendly in tone. Please don’t shoot the messenger. Please don’t assume I support the council’s position. I don’t,” heBoddington claimed that the current plans “show what goes wrong when outside consultants are brought in to dream up schemes more at home in large cities than small, historic towns like Ludlow.”
“The strongest opposition has been to proposals to close King Street to traffic. It is very narrow and the pavements more so. If it is closed, along with High Street as the consultants suggest, access to the town centre for buses and deliveries would be blocked. We closed King Street during the pandemic but even with the low traffic volumes then, it led to traffic problems in other areas of the town.
> Green spaces and 120 miles of cycling and walking routes pledged in"most ambitious plan in a century"... but Mail claims"now Birmingham wages war on motorists"“More than one in five people in Ludlow are disabled,” he said. “That rises to one in three for those aged 65 and over. In this day and age, it is wrong to develop and plans for getting around and about without putting disability at the centre.
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