Glyn Davies, Montgomeryshire’s Conservative MP is to meet a Committee of Powys County Councillors to discuss concerns about Welshpool’s One-Way System. Over recent months he has received complaints from a huge number of local residents and businesses about the problems created by the system and believes it is right that that he should pass these concerns on to the Council.
Commenting on the one-way system after more problems over the Easter weekend, Glyn Davies said,
“There can no longer be any doubt that residents and businesses of Welshpool are deeply unhappy with the one-way system that has been imposed on their town. It works fine when there is not much traffic, but fails abysmally when cars and lorries come along. Intense pressure has persuaded the Welsh Government to move forward with a bypass for Newtown and we need the same sort of pressure to sort out the problems at Welshpool.
“And it’s not just Welshpool itself that loses out. It’s the whole of central Wales West of Welshpool. Tourists to mid Wales have been frustrated by the traffic chaos at Newtown, and have opted to use A458 to Dolgellau, avoiding Newtown altogether. Now the alternative route through Welshpool has been messed up as well. Tourists to Mid Wales must wonder what they’ve done to deserve such miserable treatment.
“I assume that Powys Council has decided to take a genuine look at alternatives. What residents and business are telling me they want is for the one-way system to be scrapped, and for both Broad St and Brook St be made two-way again – allowing traffic to move as it has done since the new road system bypassing Welshpool was built in the early 1990s.”
