Reopen Inverness streets – petition launched to end chaos in city centre
A petition calling for the removal of barriers on Inverness streets has been launched by the husband of a city councillor.
Donald MacKenzie, the husband of Inverness Millburn member Isabelle MacKenzie, is “sick of the chaos” he says the Spaces for People measures have caused in the city centre.
The barriers were originally put in to allow greater social distancing in response to the pandemic, but Highland Council has said that plans to create a permanent network of walking and cycling paths will go before councillors in February.
While the initial focus is on Academy Street and Millburn Road, officials have left the door open to other temporary routes becoming permanent.
Mr Mackenzie said: “The roads were struggling to cope with traffic before these measures were put in place – and now it looks as though they are to be made semi-permanent.”
His petition states: “Inverness is a mess, with ‘Lego brick’ barriers reducing the flow of traffic and making the city centre look ugly and unwelcoming.”
The petition is at www.change.org/p/highland-council-reopen-inverness-streets-to-traffic.
