City streets just a mess (From South Wales Argus)

unfortunately money that would of been spent on refurbishing the shanty town in years gone by now goes into running the huge bureaucracy that is called the WAG . the 1st minister reminds me of robert mugabe spending the money of the poorest nation in western europe on lavish offices and salaries for him and his cronies well the rest of wales lies in a terrible mess.

I despair for anyone in Newport these days. There must be a tipping point whereby Newport is closed for any viable business, I wonder how near we now are to that point ? How many more closures can the city centre take ? I gather these aren't just repairs, but 'updates' and trying to brighten the centre up. But without somewhere to shop, you have to ask are the priorities right. We need to stop any more out of town areas setting up, to encourage traders back to the centre. However traders are being priced right OUT of Newport CC thus cutting their own throats. Newport would rather have charity and coffee/pound shops than any sort of variety, no wonder we are in the mess we are. Critically no changes are in sight,oh dear......

For your info the high streets being in the constructional state that they just happen to be in at the moment is because apart from that gas pipe hole or what ever it is that is being repaired the cities highstreet are being refurbished at long last. maybe you would know this if you would even think to stop ripping in to the city and i dont even care if your from this city or not, try being optomistic. all this stupid and pathetic pessimism and negativity toward Newport is really getting on my nerves. Yes the city has gone without for too long but that doesn't mean it will allways be like that. Us Newport people are suposed to be very proud people and yet from half the discraceful rubbish that i've been hearing even thow some sort of regeneration is finally getting under way is not called being proud. The city of Newport needs all the **** help and support it can possibly get NOT stupid negative rubbish and disgusting criticism. All this pessimism has got to stop. Every city will have its peek time and its down time and Newport has just been going through a down time, thats all. It's not the end of the world.

Well said - at last some sense

Well said - at last some sense