Sir,

As many Tenby people breathed a sigh of relief and embraced a novel sense of freedom at the end of pedestrianisation, the poor little town descended into its usual state of traffic chaos. Cars parked outside Lloyds Bank, and others double-parked behind them, produced some of the many familiar traffic bottle-necks.

Why cannot the authorities adopt a more consistent scheme of good traffic management throughout the whole year? For two months a colossal amount of money must have been spent on CCTV cameras, police, men in florescent coats with bollards, a park-and-ride service that was often too empty or too full, traffic wardens presiding over a vehicle-free Tudor Square and reserved parking spaces for those who could not use their own spaces within the walls. The result of this expenditure created a superficially pleasing theme-park town, for which many locals paid the price.

Now that the county council's experiment has ended they have abandoned Tenby to its fate, with just one traffic warden and illegally-parked vehicles everywhere. The county council has a responsibility towards those who pay community charges and commercial rates, as well as to visitors, to make the town comfortable and workable. They should introduce another experiment to see if consistent enforcement and a fair traffic management scheme results in a better environment.

Instead they continue to promote their pedestrianisation scheme in a self-congratulatory manner while genuine and serious arguments fall upon their deaf ears.

Marion Hutton,

Lexden House,

Lexden Terrace,

Tenby