WITH respect to Kathy Green I’m not sure where she is coming from.
I moved to Dorset in 1986 and spent the first six months in Dorchester. Traffic flowed through South Street at the time.
However, there were a considerable number of empty shops and it appeared to me to be the most run down main shopping streets in a county town that I had seen.
Now it is a thriving pedestrian street with a high footfall. Admittedly it is quiet in the evening but that’s just Dorchester.
I could never understand the logic of the shopkeepers in Bridport opposing pedestrianisation.
Who would set out to buy a record and depend on parking at the top of South Street to do so? If this was their plan they would have a minuscule record collection but plenty of stress.
A pedestrian precinct with tables and chairs for refreshments would greatly enhance the Bridport street scene and my view be a boom to the shops in the area.
MIKE QUINN
West Allington
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