SO the proposed Morrisons supermarket will bring "350 new jobs" (Evening Press January 7) and a "market street" offering a fishmonger, butcher, in-store bakery and so forth.
That sounds rather like a variation on what Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's and local shops already offer, so will these really be NEW jobs, or simply recycled from elsewhere?
On the other hand, if more local people go to the store's free car park instead of paying to park in the city centre, what will this do for the city centre economy and the few remaining real butchers and bakeries in the city?
But then, we only want national chains selling shoes, clothes,
mobile phones and mortgages in our high street, like every other town and city, don't we? "Clone town Britain" comes to York!
And what about that shiny new £3m road, to 'solve' our congestion problems? Won't that just become full of Morrisons shoppers, queuing to get onto the inner ring road, or the already congested routes out of the city?
York Green Party,
Broadway West,
York.
Updated: 10:43 Tuesday, January 11, 2005
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