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This is typical of the knee jerk reaction we get to every incident these days. How many hundreds of years has the Market hall been there, has this type of thing happened before? Will it happen again, possibly but not lkely, it’s just an accident where somme poor old boy has lost control of his car.

Yes if you want the area pedestrianised then campaign for it but don’t use a one of once in a lifetime accident as an excuse for overeaction.

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bridgnorth high street should be pedestrianised. with some very old buildings and buss and even lorries going through the town causing these old buildings to crack. and with this latest accident says it all

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i think it should have been pedestrianised years ago market days are hell………

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The town is already much quieter than it used to be. Banning traffic won’t help that situation. This does seem to be a typical knee jerk reaction.

Having said that – in the longer term, I think they’re going to *have* to do something about traffic flows in small town centres such as Bridgnorth. They just weren’t designed for the volume of traffic we see today.

I remember when the High St in Bridgnorth was two way, and traffic going in one direction (including buses) passed *underneath* the town hall. Looking at the levels of traffic today, it’s hard to believe!

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Yes, let’s avoid Health and Safety knee jerk reactions.

There is not much difference between what happened and what could happen on any busy street if a car went out of control (as may have been the case here) and ploughed across a pavement into a shop front.

So what must we do, close all streets with shops in them?

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I do believe that someone just asked how many times in the last few hundred years has a car crashed into a market.

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I thought that when the relief road was built that the high street should be shut on fridays and saturdays and the whitburn street market moved to the high street. This would pull all of the people that visit the market into the town where the shops are and free up some parking spaces.

My family and I go to bridgnorth most Saturdays and I can see no reason for traffic to be in the high street except for access to cartway.

Many towns around the country are traffice free and it has not made trade worse but improved it in most of them.

As for free parking in the high street who cares it costs £1-20 for two hours in the car park. Compared to Telford centre its much better value, besides which you can’t park in the high street on a saturday anyway.

Unfortunately Bridgnorth is a small town with locals who have a small outlook and don’t like change.

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I remember the huge fuss about pedestrianising Pride Hill in Shrewsbury and now photographs show it thronging with shoppers.
It certainly makes for a more pleasant visit to a town as a tourist or shopper if it is less noisy, fume free and safer.
I think the knee jerk should be applied to more stringent reviewing of elderly drivers.

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Ban over 65s from driving. Problem solved.

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Ruth – You can’t leave us hanging like that.

What could you possibly be doing that involves driving through Bridgnorth a few times a day and is double top secret?

Drug running, gun smuggling, trafficking weapons grade plutonium, going to Tesco’s for a pint of milk, ….

Maybe what you’re doing might change peoples opinions as to whether the High Street should be closed to traffic?

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i think full pedestrianisation is OTT but some would be very welcome to create a cafe culture and outdoor market, pollution, safety, tranquilty, retail would all improve

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