Serious doubts still remain about statistics used by an officer of Pembrokeshire County Council to persuade cabinet about the validity of their pedestrianisation experiment.
An officer had told cabinet that there were precedents to this scheme, but when Tenby Walled Town's traffic engineer, Alan Mendelsohn, could find none he asked the county council for more information.
The report featured in last week's Tenby Observer, who contacted cabinet member for transportation and environment, Clr. Brian Hall, for a response.
Clr. Hall stated: "It is not incumbent on the authority to do his job for him. Presumably he has access to the Internet and he can discover the information for himself. Each town's pedestrianisation scheme is tailor-made to its own requirements."
Tenby Walled Town Residents' Association vice-chairman Alistair Mackay told the Observer in reply: "Clr. Hall is chairman of the traffic management committee and as a servant of the public, who voted him there, he has a duty to demand of his officers and produce such information as is requested by his constituents. He has to explain himself and get his facts right."
Alistair Mackay added: "We have spent the last two years saying that Tenby is unique and needs a unique solution. We have offered several solutions to the county council. Now Mr. Hall says that each town's pedestrianisation scheme is tailor-made to its own requirements. This is a complete U turn on their part. So is he now admitting there is no precedent. He can't have it both ways."