Swansea Council’s already laughable business-friendly credentials took another serious knock today with a point-blank refusal to listen to concerns of the city's traders.
Representatives want the Kingsway, a main arterial road in the city centre, to be restored as a two-way dual carriageway serving east-west traffic. But council officials have dissed the idea on the grounds of cost and disruption.
No comment on the matter from euro-jaunting council leader Chris Holley, despite the fact that a good chunk of his £32,418 special responsibility allowance (paid on top of his councillor’s salary) is for “promoting an overall strategy for the City Centre”. It was left instead to a faceless council spokesman to state that "re-introducing two-way traffic on the Kingsway would be unaffordable and disruptive” and that there is “no available funding for further work."
In other words, we spent millions of your money on screwing up the city centre and we really can't bothered on looking at how to put it right.
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