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Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8514 Written by Lee on Thursday, 8th November 2007 Are they always like this??? (link below.) http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/latestheadlines/display.var.1812784.0.fireworks_at_council_meeting.php Re: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8531 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 9th November 2007 It tends to get very split and heated from what I have read .... I particularly noted a comment from someone who posted up that someone from Melksham shouldn't have followed up on the thread because they weren't from the town ... while at the same time the argument was raging around traffic flows and encouraging a new road scheme which would push more traffic up the A350 through Yarnbrook, Melksham, Beanacre and Chicken. It seems that some NIMBYs are alive and kicking ;) Re: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8717 Written by John on Tuesday, 20th November 2007 Here is a good account of the 5 November Westbury Town Council meeting:  ... in the Warminster Journal. No doubt the comment that anyone who does not live in Westbury should not follow their affairs came from someone who moved to a home on the A350 route in Westbury in recent years. Re: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8720 Written by Pete on Tuesday, 20th November 2007 [quote author=John link=topic=4665.msg8717#msg8717 date=1195578512] No doubt the comment that anyone who does not live in Westbury should not follow their affairs came from someone who moved to a home on the A350 route in Westbury in recent years. Re: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8721 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 20th November 2007 I live in Melksham, and feel that I should steer well clear of the internal politics of other towns - except where those politics have an effect on my own town. Very often that can be positive, and indeed it should be, with everyone coming together for a common good of the area. Indeed - the TransWilts is a classic example of that, isn't it? Of course, it gets that little harder where the interests of one group / town and their movement forward have a significant negative effect on another town - where the attractive development of one town centre could bleed trade from a neighbour, or where a traffic scheme to ban heavy lorries from one city could lead to pressure on the road through another town. Re: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council - 4665/8726 Written by John on Wednesday, 21st November 2007 I live in Warminster, also on the TransWilts line, I think. link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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