LORRAINE BREMNER MCBRIDE: Making the debate ‘two wheels good, four wheels bad’ is unhelpful

The raison d’être of a BID is to be an effective, strong and representative voice for our city centre businesses on the matters key to them.

At the current time that continues to be most notably and vociferously in regard to active travel plans.

Businesses can view the revised proposal and design for Academy Street and the wider city centre via three dedicated "business only" drop-in sessions to be held at the Spectrum Centre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9am-noon. Businesses can also attend the public sessions if preferred, which will run on Tuesday from 1pm-4pm then Wednesday and Thursday from 1pm-7pm. There will be a chance to ask questions and provide feedback so all businesses who can, are strongly encouraged to attend.

Regardless, Inverness City Centre BID will continue to work hard to ensure that the views of all our members are fully considered and we will continue to engage and consult with businesses as matters progress. Any business unable to attend, or that wants in the interim to discuss the matter further, can also contact the BID team by emailing info@inverness.uk.com

Overall, reducing the debate essentially to ‘two wheels good, four wheels bad’ or using terminology such as ‘petrol heads’ is somewhat unhelpful, given Courier columnist Colin Campbell was correct in assessing that any final plan must not kill off the city centre itself.

Lorraine Bremer McBride is director of Inverness BID

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