Not content with allowing the otherwise attractive cobbled sets forming the crossings on Dunbar’s Historic High Street to fall into disrepair, East Lothian Council have finally decided to remove them. The reasoning is a bit opaque. No doubt pedestrians were asked about this in an unrepresentative vox pop survey of resident’s views – would you like the cobbles removed? Option 1: YES Option 2: YES. Or – perhaps it was the quiet lobbying by the local Police, Taxi companies and other clubs who, tacitly supported by the Roads are for Cars Department, and hated the very idea of granite sets all along?
Just recently, the Roads Department of ELC felt it important that residents of Parsons Pool be consulted on a minor road improvement scheme. I say minor, it was pretty important to the residents, who rolled up their sleeves and got very much involved in redesigning their own street. Top marks to the council and to the residents for bothering. The roads were seemingly in a poor state of repair, and the greens looked like they needed beating up / replanting – along with some of the front gardens!
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