Plus ca change..
Hannah Slater's original triptych painting has been replaced with another picture, by Sarah Farooqi this time, of cental Morpeth. Or Morpeth as it might appear were Morpeth a town in the Netherlands, or a town in a benign parallel universe.
Wow! Traffic absent and tamed. Two tiny cars nosing gingerly along flanked by running, unaccompanied children, kids with balloons, mums with pushchairs, pets. Visionary shared space scenario, person-centred street-scene. Safety. Peace. Clean air! War is over if you want it. Let the bells ring..
So has Morpeth's Bridge Street changed at all over the last seven years? Has it buggery: still four lanes for cars; two for moving machinery, two for stationary machinery.
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