Well, the temporary traffic lights have finally gone, the dignitaries have been trotted out and balloons have been tied up ..... I have to ask, what is there to celebrate? Were the dozen or so people who required medical assistance, and in some cases operations, after seriously injuring themselves during the roadworks celebrating? Were those traders who have managed to survive the most financially crippling 18 months of poor trade joyful? Were the people of Pershore who's opinions have been blatantly ignored and over-ruled thankful?
What we're left with here in Pershore is a hotch-potch job designed by somebody of poor taste and no common sense! The result has split the town into 3 sections and has left us with a large section of uneven paths with high kerbs which are difficult for our predominantly elderly community to negotiate.
Still, what's done is done and we have to do all that we can to support our town and our local shops in order to retain our shopping centre. However, we need more than poxy balloons on one-off events to do that! We need strategic help and long-term planning to get our unique shops back on the map to end the deathly silence that has befallen our High Street.
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Perhaps our elected representatives could concern themselves with issues like this that affect the people they are supposed to represent as opposed to banging on about global issues such as drug packaging and recycling? After all, we're all far more "environmentally savvy" these days than we've ever been so do we really have to keep having it pushed under our noses every five minutes? We all have 2 recycling bins, compost bins and are too terrified to ask for a plastic bag in a supermarket .... give us a break! If the Councillors are THAT concerned with the environment, why don't THEY cut down on the number of cars that they use or get the bus/cycle to their Council meetings?! (they can always chain their bicycles up to the shiny black posts that have been provided). After all, shouldn't you practice what you preach ...?
We'll all sit back now (get the deckchairs out on our answer to Weston's Promenade!) and enjoy a brief period of relief before the Gas Board start digging up all the newly-tarmacked roads on the Abbey Estate in the Autumn ....
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