In the interests of balance, this petition counters the call for traffic calming in Tenbury on the following grounds:

1. Tenbury already has recently constructed traffic calming in the form of the raised road sections adjacent the bridge, pedestrian crossing and round market, as well as through the car parks. No further measures are required.

2. The proliferation of signage and clutter does nothing but detract from the visual appeal of the town and takes up valuable space, physically and aesthetically.

3. Tenbury does not have a road safety issue. There is no demonstrable need for additional obstacles in an already cluttered road system and any calls for such are a matter of perception by a minority who have chosen to live alongside main through routes and now seek to inhibit traffic for their own personal benefit, not the benefit of the wider community. 

4. Any suggestion that further restriction of traffic flows will somehow reduce the environmental impact of through traffic is a nonsense. Unrestricted traffic, whereby drivers are responsible for maintaining a smooth flow, runs better than heavily restricted systems in which drivers are forced to slow down and speed up for signs, lights and physical obstructions. 

In short, the traffic problem in Tenbury cannot be resolved by choking up the roads further, it can only be improved by choking off the incessant residential development around the town which is generating a population size which the infrastructure cannot and will never sustain.

Any attempts to interfere with the road system must be met with a pragmatic but firm negative response, to counter what is nothing more than emotive safety and environmental propaganda, not of which is grounded in fact.