Sir,
Help - I am turning into Victor Meldrew! Having just spent another 20 minutes trying to get through the traffic chaos that is Tenby High Street, I think this problem needs some urgent attention before someone gets injured or worse.
Most traders will tell you that this Christmas has been the quietest for years. I am told Radio Pembrokeshire said two weeks before Christmas, "Don't bother going to Tenby, you cannot get in and you cannot park anywhere."
Whilst many councils have now recognised the value in freeing up traffic flow - removing sleeping policemen etc., Pembrokeshire County Council seem intent on choking the life out of the town. It seems insane to me to create a natural bottleneck, making a narrow street even more so. Is this a penance for not embracing pedestrianisation, as fully as they wished.
A well known local milkman, fed up with yet another gridlock, went to Tenby police station to complain. The sergeant on duty told him he was "fed up to the back teeth with this man-made problem."
The council say it is up to the police - they say that they just do not have the resources. Even with yellow lines, this street will still be too narrow. There will always be delivery vans and disabled drivers parking. Will somebody do something before it is too late?
Martyn Rogers, Castle Hill, Tenby