The Rushden Echo, 12th March 1965, transcribed by Jim Hollis
Vandals Strike Survey
The long awaited preliminary surveys necessary for drawing up a master plan for the redevelopment of Rushden’s town centre are at last under way.
This morning, automatic traffic counters should be ticking away on streets surrounding the High Street, finding out just how dense the traffic using the High Street and its branch roads is.
These counters should have been in operation last Friday but the survey was postponed because of bad weather.
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In the meantime, as can be seen from the picture, the rubber piping stretching across the roads for cars to run over has been cut. How is not known, but it seems deliberate and malicious.
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Vandals have slashed censor calculators. The tube that crosses the road cut in every section.
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There are twenty counters around the town. Newton Road, Church Street, Rectory Road and High Street South are some of the roads on which they are recording the traffic.
Mr. P. G. Swann, Assistant County Planning Officer, told the “Echo”: “Rushden Urban Council has asked the County Planning Department to look at the central area development to draw up a master plan.”
Seventeen members of the County Council Planning Department will be helping in this operation.
They will also be looking at the towns’ pedestrians. People walking to the town centre will be counted, and the results looked at in conjunction with the amount of motor traffic.
After further surveys it will be possible to draw up a master plan for consideration of the urban council and, it is hoped, the people of the town.
The “Echo” asks, let this be done as openly as possible so that Rushden may know its future and express its own opinion on radical development.
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