I REALLY cannot believe that, with or without the Piano Building, Mike Oborski seriously believes that the Centros Miller development in the town centre is the place for a cinema.
I live on the Worcester side of town and on a recent Friday it took me over 20 minutes to get from the Stourport Road roundabout, down New Road, and another five plus minutes (even with my disabled badge) to find a parking space near the library.
And this even before the new development and the new college are open.
If I had been coming to see an afternoon showing of a film, I would have missed the beginning.
For anyone without a disabled badge, it would have been quicker to walk.
It would have taken less time to drive to the cinema at Merry Hill and park in one of their numerous clearly marked and monitored disabled spaces.
The new development may provide more parking spaces, but I doubt whether there would be sufficient for shopper and cinema-goers too - and so much traffic converging on one place would result in even worse grid-lock than there is already.
I cannot see the situation improving at night either as, presumably, the college, shops and new eating places will all stay open till late.
After I had finished at the library, I drove over to get something from one of the shops on Crossley Park to find (even with Sainsbury's as busy as ever) no traffic snarl-ups and hundreds of empty parking spaces, especially in front of the former B&Q building.
I know that councillors and planners like us ordinary folk to think that great mountains have to be moved to "re-zone" in order to justify their existence, but to my "ordinary-folk" type mind, it seems a much easier process to re-zone a building which already exists than to knock down one that is part of Kidderminster's industrial heritage and build another in its place.
MRS G EDWARDS
Stanklyn Lane
Kidderminster
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