Dunbar, well Belhaven actually, is world famous for its Bridge to Nowhere. Now there are plans for a Road to Nowhere. Just weeks after we heard that the Abbey Church is once again on the market, with any prospect of much needed sensitively designed housing development being stymied, we hear that another council department have been tasked with creating another killer attraction for Dunbar … yes, wait for it a car park. The road to Abbeylands, a quiet cul de sac, is to be Dunbar’s new Road to Nowhere.
There is a fatal and incomprehensible attraction among our town planners and policy makers to the discredited policy of “predict and provide”. There is a particular obsession with providing even more space for cars, when their own policies suggest they should do otherwise and national policies are basically saying “reduce car dependency”. We all need the bloody exercise as its our arteries getting congested not the roads, even if we couldn’t give a monkeys about the planet. North Berwick is a case in point, where consultants get hired not to advise on the best way of managing the parking problem, but to identify the best place to provide additional parking. This is not just barking it is insane. Dunbar is not a major holiday destination, not yet, as the accommodation and attractions don’t quite cut it.
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