Comments on: When surveyed, 27.36 Totnes shopkeepers preferred pedestrianisation!

By: sarah ward

sarah ward — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:02:29 +0000

I am a trader on Totnes High Street. I can understand that the residents want a traffic free high street but that would, in time, bring a trader free high street too! Maybe they all do their shopping on-line already?

By: Bernard Black

Bernard Black — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:11:55 +0000

I am a trader on the High Street and I live in Totnes, no one asked me if I am in favour of pedestrianisation or not. My answer would have been no, for the simple reason I would go out of business. This view is shared by most of the traders on Fore Street and the High Street.

By: Herbert Holzinger

Herbert Holzinger — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:48:15 +0000

It has always been a certain short-sighted and ignorant bunch of traders in the main street of Totnes that has violently opposed any improvement of the unsustainable situation in the main street. However, in addition to the real towns people, there is now emerging a group of intelligent and proper business people who can see the benefit of pedestrianisation and are in favour of it. They are keeping a low profile though, as some feel intimidated by the Mafia of ignorant stick-in-the-muds, who keep prattling about ‘community cohesion’, but don’t give a damn about the people of Totnes who are fed up to their back-teeth about the dangerous situation in the main street. It is high time that the County Council shows some spine and guts and carries through the long overdue improvement of pedestrianisation.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:45:01 +0000

How does that even begin to work? A third of a shopkeeper agrees? His legs say yes, but the rest says no way!