Original title: Report analyses impact of street changes Linked report
Initial findings show that overall, retail spending has not been negatively affected by changes to street layouts.
Encouraging to see that this hasn’t significantly affected consumer spend in these areas. Hopefully this would lead to less resistance to other such schemes in the future.
Oh I just presume that power tool shops and garden centers generally do not live near book shops. They are normally huge stores that are placed out of the way, away from the CBD areas, and have their own private car parks.
With that said, I think you could make Mitre 10s more pedestrian friendly. They have trolleys so walking distance isn’t that big of an issue. After all you managed to get the thing from the back of the store to the counter, often this is a pretty significant distance.