I hope the pedestrianisation of central Wellingborough happens. In many towns there are increasing calls for a redress of balance in the use of space. Car drivers have long held sway as the most important road users, with everybody else having to cede space for their cars to sit unused for most of the day, breathe the polluted air their vehicles produce, tolerate the noise their engines make and get out of their way or get run over. Our public transport is blocked by the jams they cause and our cyclists are unsettled, and sometimes unseated by their too-close overtaking. They will howl at the "injustice" of a redress of balance, but it's time to recognize that they are no more special, and deserve no more privilege, than anybody else.
I hope the pedestrianisation of central Wellingborough happens. In many towns there are increasing calls for a redress of balance in the use of space. Car drivers have long held sway as the most important road users, with everybody else having to cede space for their cars to sit unused for most of the day, breathe the polluted air their vehicles produce, tolerate the noise their engines make and get out of their way or get run over. Our public transport is blocked by the jams they cause and our cyclists are unsettled, and sometimes unseated by their too-close overtaking. They will howl at the "injustice" of a redress of balance, but it's time to recognize that they are no more special, and deserve no more privilege, than anybody else.