REMOVABLE bollards installed as part of a £110,000 scheme to protect night-time revellers from traffic in the town centre are not being used, frustrated licensees have complained.
Licensee Glynn Holt is fed up of the street outside his bar looking like ‘a crime scene’ because police choose to use a parked police car to block the road outside his bar rather than the removable bollards designed and paid for to do the job.
Wellington Street is closed to traffic on Friday and Saturday nights to protect the crowds of people coming and going between the many busy bars - many of them under the influence of alcohol.
A system of removable safety bollards was installed at South Yorkshire Police’s expense. They form a barrier across the road but can be safely driven over by emergency vehicles when needed as they fold down flat against the road.
At the end of the night they can be removed to allow the road to open as normal.
But instead of retrieving them from their secure locker and fixing them in position, police officers have been opting to park a police car across the road instead.
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