A number of tickets will have to be cancelled after the wrong signs were put up to mark the Spalding Town Centre Traffic Regulation Order (TRO).
Traffic can’t drive through Market Place and Hall Place from 10am to 4pm.
However new signs put up to ensure the TRO is enforced state they’re banned from parking there permanently.
“Somebody has made a cock up,” Coun Rob Gibson, the deputy leader of Lincolnshire County Council told last week’s Spalding Town Forum meeting. “It’s not what we asked for or what the then administration of the county council promised to do.
“Anyone who has had a ticket in the town centre after 4pm has been rescinded
“Nobody will get any tickets after 4pm going forward.
“The county council are now working out on sorting their mistake, because it is their mistake and it needs sorting.
“It should hopefully only be wrong for a short period of time.”
Otherwise Coun Gibson told the meeting he was pleased though some businesses had told him they thought footfall was down.
“I do worry about businesses,” he said.
Coun Ingrid Sheard though said she thought it was up.
“I’ve walked through quite a few times in the past couple of the weeks and, on the whole, there have been no cars,” Coun Gibson continued. “To me it looks like a blank canvas for a town BID or town board that has a bit of money to do something with.
“There’s a lot of footfall so we need to harness people and draw them in.”
Coun James Le Sage added: “I think it’s interesting a lot of people on social media say ‘you’re going to kill the town’ and yet it was the people who voted for this situation.
“We asked them what do you want and you delivered.”
*Now there’s less cars, councillors have called for a crackdown on cyclists in the pedestrian area.
Coun Le Sage described them as ‘kamikaze’ and ‘a danger’. “There’s a huge amount tearing through the town centre.
“It’s nice there but would be nice to feel safe again.
“The mobility scooters too, I don’t know what electric motors on them.”
The meeting was told it wasn’t in traffic wardens remit.
Councillors did hear that Lincolnshire Police are considering carrying bike lights with them for when they pull over those riding without lights.
The cyclists would then have to pay £5 for the lights they’d have to put on their bike there and then.
