Talk:Cardigan, Ceredigion

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I have removed the following, under the title 'Current Affairs':

At present, a development including a new Tesco store, cottage hospital, housing, and various other possibilites has been given the go-ahead for development at the bath house site. It is a well known fact that this is to the dismay of the vast majority of Cardigan residents, as it will undoubtedly pose many problems with the currently congested traffic system. The only access points are (i) the original Bathhouse access at lower Mwldan, which had extreme congestion problems a number of years back before a manufacturing plant was closed down at this location. Exiting from this point can only result in entering the main oneway system at a give way point on an extreme gradient hill, which will clearly not be of any use to heavy goods vehicles; and (ii), exiting to 'Gwbert road', where all traffic will certainly pass the county school, rugby and bowling club, before coming to a T-juntion, at which point traffic will have to give way. Parking is commonplace on the sides of these roads, especially on weekends when much attended games very regurlarly take place at the rugby club. These include coaches which can't easily enter the rugby club parking site at present, and flow very often has to revert to one way to allow some kind of progression. A further problem is that any traffic reaching the junction, i.e. all HGVs visiting the site, have to turn left to travel towards Aberaeron/Aberystwyth, or right for Carmarthen, M4 and onwards. Obviously, the vast majority of these will be for the Carmarhen direction, and a right turn is the only option due to the fact that the current bypass system has been disabled for many years, only allowing north travel upon entering at the current tesco junction. An issue with the right turn is that it can only lead to a tight 90 degree turn which has had numerable problems with jammed vehicles in the past, which weren't necessarily articulated. Obviously, the development has the possibilty of having a very profound positive effect on Cardigan. Currently the development of the town has reached a bit of a stagnation, with alot of the private stores failing to return to any kind of viable trading after the arrival of the original Tesco store. There have been a few succeses, mostly neiche stores, which do point toward a possible bright future for Cardigan. If this development is to prove fruitfull for Cardigan, it's location needs to represent the distinctly "out of town" experience which it clearly will turn out to be, locating it close to town will only further destroy the market town centre experience which has only just managed to start to flower once more.

together with inline comments by a subsequent editor, due to its style, spelling, lack of citations, and contientious issues labelled as fact (e.g. the bits in bolded above). Essentially it sounds like an op-ed of the Tivy-Side. Gareth 15:35, 7 March 2007 (UTC)