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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

If there are two neighbouring towns that Accy should be compared with (in terms of size, architecture and spatial lay-out), they are Hebden Bridge and Skipton. Both of these towns have parking charges yet both are regarded as processing some of the best shopping areas in the UK and being amongst the best places to live in the UK.

I certainly cannot be arsed to to do any shopping in Accy town centre any longer, given the volume of traffic and the resultant air pollution. It's a quick visit to Tesco - get in, shop and get out and 'owt else I need when I'm back there I arrange to get on line. No way do I wish to run the gauntlet of drunks, fatso's and lazy drivers lurching from one dodgy retail outlet to another (T-shirt print shops excepted).

The problem of course, is that the borough is in the dark ages when it comes to shopping. There are no town centre cycle lanes and there is but one pedestrianised thoroughfare, Broadway. The rest is a first degree mess. The sooner that restrictions are placed on cars coming into the town centre, the better and that will mean that a different class of shoppers will return, with a more prosperous town centre for everyone.

It is a long way from Wapping when all's said and done