I COULDN’T agree more than with ‘Old Warringtonian’ about the state of the town centre in particular (Warrington Guardian, August 4).

The town is dead in the centre and the number of vacant commercial property is unbelievable.

Why did the great council develop the town centre in the 1970s only to redesign, knock down and rebuild it 40 years later?

Like most of the other large projects they undertake, because of bad initial planning.

The whole town centre is totally car unfriendly and somehow the powers that be cannot see that the car is the choice of transport for the majority.

Bridge Street and many surrounding areas are nothing more that boozing dens or expensive coffee shops.

These are also infiltrating the Golden Square development.

I would have thought that Warrington Borough Transport could make a fortune from midnight to dawn taking home all the revellers that throng the area in the dark hours. There are very few passengers available in the daytime as there are so few shops that attract customers.

If we need to have a new market why not have used the land just north of Central Station to integrate it with Golden Square, the bus station and of course Central Station?

No – we stick it in a corner away from the railway and bus stations and give more permissions for more eateries.

Massive investment of 40 years ago demolished to build new, that I doubt will attract any further business.

GEORGE F MCKIE Great Sankey