LETTERS: County council must explain matters over Harrogate's Station Parade proposals

NYCC needs to explain matters.

In principal I support reducing the traffic on Station Parade but NYCC have failed to explain where the traffic would go without making pollution levels (and chaos) in neighbouring streets worse.

It is particularly disturbing that the analysis put forward by David Pearson has never been refuted.

Why? Is that not what democracy is all about, argument and counter argument?

LETTERS: Survey results don't necessarily show support for Harrogate Gateway ProjectAt the same time they could explain why the proposals put forward by business leaders in Harrogate were rejected. After all, many visitors come to Harrogate for the shopping experience so business leaders’ opinions are invaluable.

In a way NYCC are authors of their own misfortune in that having spent money on phase one of their plan for reform (a unidirectional traffic scheme in Parliament Street) they failed to complete the work by not doing phases two to five as explained by Malcolm Neesam leaving the traffic problem unresolved.

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