WHAT a strange world we find ourselves in these days. Seven post offices are to close all over York. Here in my area we have recently lost our butcher's shop, wine shop, motorcycle showroom and two petrol stations.
A little further away on Boroughbridge Road a very popular bakery closed and will now be demolished for flats, which seems a bit strange because it was part of a parade of shops.
Across the road on the ex-Donnelleys site hundreds more flats are being built.
The piece of this jigsaw which doesn't seem to fit, however, is the fact that the population of York is growing and we are taking away the local infrastructure to support that growth.
We are told that York city centre needs more shops (October 12). The speed at which we are closing them down in the suburbs would seem to support that fact.
So if you need to go shopping and you don't have a car then I suggest you quickly purchase one because your local facilities are disappearing fast.
Whoops! Another piece of the York planning jigsaw is to discourage car use.
Maybe this increase in car journeys will clog up the roads and we will have to bring in road tolls.
Stuart Wilson,
Vesper Drive,
York.
Updated: 11:11 Friday, October 22, 2004
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