IT is indeed a shame that the Pyramid Gallery shop premises were damaged by a lorry trying to manoeuvre around a car along Stonegate (Call for a lorry ban in historic street after building is damaged, August 31).

Cllr Andy D'Agorne's knee jerk response to want to ban delivery vehicles, however, is regrettable and typical.

A large number of shops along Stonegate don't open until 10am and close at 5pm.

As he well knows, delivery vehicles have to be out of that area by 10.30am and are not allowed back until 5am the next day. There is therefore a 30-minute period to make deliveries.

There is a lot of goodwill from delivery drivers to putting deliveries where the shopkeeper wants them but when it comes to pulling pallets along the length of the uneven surface of Stonegate there won't be any from me.

As for Mike White's (Berry's Jewellers) comments that lorries should be banned during business hours, how will he receive deliveries when no one is there?

David Broughton, York Delivery Service, Smary Lane, Murton, York

 

IT is now time that the juggernauts that enter York’s ancient streets are stopped.

I walk round the city centre almost every day and see the damage even the smaller vans do.

The footpaths are covered in spray paint, circling the damage that is waiting to be repaired. Yes, shops need to be supplied but surely not by these giants in our very narrow streets, who pull onto footpaths so others can pass on the opposite footpath, leaving us pedestrians to walk in the road where we have to dodge cyclists going the wrong way up one-way streets.

I can’t imagine that small shops selling trinkets or clothes etc need to be supplied by 20 to 40-ton wagons.

Where are the police? No doubt tied up doing unnecessary paperwork.

Dave Matthewman, Green Lane, Acomb, York