STRUGGLING with the problem of Blackburn's town-centre congestion, the council plans more pedestrianisation - which could close Church Street to traffic. But traders fear stopping the cars will send shoppers elsewhere.
Blackburn may have a king-size traffic headache - and one not helped by the government withholding cash for a proper inner-relief road.
But councillors should listen carefully to the traders before they decide - even if the task of curbing congestion without curbing customers is a tricky one.
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