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Chippenham Bypass to be dualled? - 7960/12874 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 13th February 2009 From my email ... talking about the South West Regional Assembly. > Have you heard about the WCC list of transport schemes submitted to the > Assembly Transport Group? All roads of course - a dualling of the Chippenham > Bypass being one. I'm going to put this down as "rumour" for the moment, but it does make logical sense if Wiltshire Council are looking to have the A350 upgraded into a proper major through trunk route rather than just having it labelled as such. The Westbury bypass, if built (decision awaited) should draw traffic away from the centre of Westbury, but will also I suspect draw traffic from the south to the M4 away from the A36 / A46 via Bath. Congestion at Yarnbrook, Beanacre, around Chippenham and at various other spots will be increased, so these extra improvements will be needed. I estimated last year that the improvements that would be needed in these other places would come to a considerably bigger spend than the Westbury bypass - triple the bypass price and you're getting nearer to the total. Alas, I don't see that the A350 improvements would in themselves make any parking or access improvements in Swindon, Chippenham, Salisbury ... Has anyone heard more about dualling the Chippenham Bypass? Re: Chippenham Bypass to be dualled? - 7960/12879 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 17th February 2009 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=7960.msg12874#msg12874 date=1234507068]From my email ... talking about the South West Regional Assembly. > Have you heard about the WCC list of transport schemes submitted to the > Assembly Transport Group? All roads of course - a dualling of the Chippenham > Bypass being one.[/quote] The WCC list reffered to is that submitted to the South West Regional Assembly for inclusion in their advice to the DfT on how the Regional Funding Allocation (RFA2) should be spent over the 2008-2019 period. It is to be hoped that the overall priority level given to rail infrastructure schemes in the SWRA advice in comparison to other transport modes does not mirror that listed for Swindon (link below.) http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4125797.Swindon_to_get___150m_to_improve_transport/ [quote="Swindon Advertiser article"]Swindon is set to receive a massive transport boost after 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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