A SUGGESTION has been made for traffic calming measures to be put in place in Haddington town centre to slow down ‘boy racers’.

Local businessman Falko Burkert called for a speed bump or a raised crossing on High Street to slow motorists down.

Concerns about vehicles speeding on High Street and Market Street were passed to police at the town’s community and police partnership (CAPP) meeting.

Mr Burkert highlighted the issue and said: “There is boy-racer trouble on High Street and Market Street.

“I phoned the police and nobody came round and [the drivers] still do it.”

Mr Burkert lives off High Street and felt traffic-calming measures could be introduced to reduce the problem.

He said: “My suggestion is a speed bump to stop them racing. Raise the crossing where the monument is on High Street.”

Constable Charlie Duncan sympathised with the problems in the town centre and said the noise from exhausts was “unpleasant”. But he added: “They are not using it as a racetrack. There are some noisy exhausts but they are not racing. Sometimes, their acceleration is poor.”

A council spokeswoman said that they had received no recent complaint regarding ‘boy racers’.

She told the Courier: “We have only received one official complaint regarding ‘boy racer’ activity on Haddington High Street since January 2018; consequently, we have no plans for additional traffic-calming in the area, although we will be looking at the layout of High Street as part of wider plans to improve the town centre in due course.

“If we do receive complaints of this nature, they are passed to Police Scotland for the purposes of enforcement.

“Officers from East Lothian Council will work alongside police colleagues, however, in identifying longer-term solutions to any recognised problem.”