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Traders face six months of chaos
From the Amesbury Journal, first published Thursday 28th Feb 2002.
After enduring a month of disruption, lost trade and traffic snarl-ups due to pavement work in Salisbury's South Western Road, traders in Fisherton Street are bracing themselves for yet more chaos.
Work is about to start to lay new pavements along both sides of Fisherton Street, from South Western Road to Bridge Street - and the enhancement work will take at least 25 weeks.
Many businesses in Fisherton Street have already lost 90 per cent of their trade, according to district councillor Simon Howarth, who has accused the council of "mind-boggling complacency" over the handling of the enhancement scheme.
He said: "Traders have seen their businesses decimated by the disruption caused by the works, yet the council has appeared to do nothing to attempt to speed the works.
"Besides crippling businesses and putting people's livelihoods at risk, the re-laying of less than 100 metres of paving on one side of South Western Road has brought four weeks of absolute chaos for people coming from the west of the city."
Mr Howarth said several traders at the railway station end of Fisherton Street had been severely hit by disruption and countless hours had been lost by people trying to access the city, the railway station and Churchfields industrial estate.
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