IT was interesting to read the letter from Stephen Jones published in The Citizen the other week, and then have it endorsed by another of your readers last week.

There can therefore be no doubt that he is on the right track, especially to move the market back to the bus station site when this is re-developed. It would, though be valuable to know the feelings of the market tenants, should there be any of them left when this work takes place. Although the present market hall is actually only a few yards away from the original site, those few yards make all the difference. Where previously the market hall was en route between Common Garden Street and Market Street, it is now at the end of a cul-de-sac on the route to nowhere.

There is therefore no passing trade. This would not be case were it to be part of the newly refurbished bus station site. What do the traders think? It is after all there livelihoods that are affected.

Every year the Bubbles swimming pool on Morecambe Promenade is threatened with closure, but is always reprieved at the last minute. (Just like Lancaster's Dukes perhaps it is obvious that with money apparently already available for yet another outdoor pool, albeit at Sandylands, the Bubbles outdoor pool could be covered to give an even better and hopefully permanent feature to the promenade.

And finally if the latest stretch of the cycle path is ever completed between Carlisle Bridge and Greyhound Bridge, and a new bridge is built to commemorate the millennium then why not just call it the Millennium Bridge, rather than drag the name of any dubious personalities into it?

Gordon Arkwright,

Thorpe Avenue,

Torrisholme.

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