DEAR EDITOR - I note with interest the recent front-page article entitled "Yobs are target" - concerning the most welcome initiatives being made to make Bromsgrove a more safe and pleasant place in which to live.
I would however suggest that yob culture is not confined to groups of youths roaming car parks and the town centre, as the article would have us believe.
Could I encourage the targets to include the yob motorist in which the town seems to excel. These local inhabitants seem immune or aloof from what they presumably regard as the inconvenient petty bureaucracy of the law as they go about their daily business.
There is the anti-social, dangerous and illegal habit of driving onto the pavement at the narrowest point of Worcester Road opposite Images, to disgorge assorted children into Bromsgrove School each morning.
Not only do these motorists ignore double yellow lines, they completely block the pavement thus preventing normal pedestrian access, and make it impossible to pass on the road without driving on the wrong side into approaching traffic.
It happens too on other roads in and around the town centre, including the High Street outside MacDonald's - sometimes covering up the zig-zag lines by the crossing.
I am sure the council doesn't mind replacing the pavements every week or so, due to the damage caused by the large number of cars and vans whose occupants find it much more convenient to drive along and park on the footpath, rather than have to walk from and to a nearby car park.
Your phrase "There's public concern of intimidation and unruly behaviour" is no less true of those supposed to show example.
Presumably then, the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, as a means of persuading offenders from doing anything which affects the quality of peoples' lives, will be equally enforced across all Bromsgrove's citizens, and the town will indeed become the quiet, safe and pleasant place the tax payers have the right to expect.
H Sherlock,
Bromsgrove.
(address supplied)
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