WHILE Durham’s renowned light festival generated much-valued revenue, it’s time to shed light on why there’s nothing loonier than Lumiere.
I learned first-hand on Thursday, November 16. Daytime traffic tailbacks delayed people’s journeys to work, or visits to council facilities.
One bus driver had to take an empty bus out of North Road station at about 10am as he was noticeably late reaching it.
An anxious young couple reached the Clayport customer access point/library after it had closed early – at 2.30pm!
The following morning I returned a filled-in council form, and a city resident reported her street’s day-before uncollected refuse, adding: “The students have left stuff lying around too.”
The Market Place post box was metal-barriered and inaccessible during the lighting dome’s erection and dismantling.
Otherwise its slot was woodblocked, leaving us to use our initiative and the basement Post Office in WH Smith.
The thought of – and let’s hope this never happens – a bomb disposal team battling its way through ancient streets crowded with ‘light worshippers’ is too terrible to contemplate.
Presumably someone has actually planned for this mad modern world scenario?
What with some roads closed off, access across Framwellgate Bridge being by purchased ticket after 4.30pm, it’s no wonder one man grumbled: “It does your head in, doesn’t it.”
Come on, powers that be, serve the people and not just PR-driven money interests.
Steve Lawson, Tow Law
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