MP says Welshpool's one-way is failure

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies says the new Welshpool one-way system is a faliure.

 

He made the comments after receiving a petition signed by 90% of the town's businesses yesterday.

 

"The new Welshpool one-way system is a failure, dangerous along Broad Street and High Street, and with complex juctions each end of Church Street which lead to frustrating delays," he said.

 

"I received a petition from John Evans and Dave Brown, signed by almost every business in the town demanding changes. My job was to then pass the petition on to David Jones, the Chair of a Powys County Council committee which is conducting a review of how its working and whether it needs change."

 

Pernsioners Mr Brown and Mr Evans carried out the survey with all businesses filling in a questionnaire because they were frustrated by the lack of council activity.

 

"We were frustrated by the fact that none of the councils involved had taken any positive steps to find out the true feeling regarding  the one way system," said Mr Evans.

 

"It should have been a far wider survey, but as pensioners, acting with limited resources we were only able to do a short survey of shops in the town centre."

 

Councillor David Jones will now take the survey for discussion by the committee looking into the impact of the one-way system.