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Who would honestly want a main highway to be built here?
For this is where the unpopular eastern road is actually routed.
Its planning application is 2400 obscure pages.
But one crass council.
Here are WCC's simulated impressions of its intrusive rural highway plan.
This is at a time when rational solutions for West Wiltshire are really required.
The eastern bypass development is opportunist gambling, still without funding.
This wrong road through the best areas would mess-up footpaths & bridleways.
Most of the responses to WCC's 2005 consultation are objections to its scheme.
Most of the responses to WCC's 2007 consultation are objections to its scheme.
WCC's expedient eastern route in the countryside is actually full of big problems.
Environmental mitigation concepts, which were hastily put together to meet the political timing of WCC's '05 planning
application, have proved to be inadequate.
Tailbacks at adjacent Yarnbrook, far worse than in Westbury, are being ignored.
It is worth pointing out that little has been done to re-direct long distance lorries to/from the M4 by other than the A350
- as approved BBSCS recommendations.
WCC’s HGV road map still portrays the A350 as a strategic lorry route, cynically encouraging heavy trucks through
villages where there will be no traffic relief.
WCC's own route flows prove that an eastern Westbury bypass would impose yet more HGVs on to
other communities which already suffer twice as many.
Ludicrously, rail freight integration is WCC's own policy. See 'Freightway'.
Why not have a sustainable solution of an integrated western access road alongside the railway, routed directly to the
station and industrial areas?
"New WCC highway plans put nature first" - if we don't laugh, we'd cry.
Thank you for joining us on our walk along the eastern scheme route.
Come to some of our further fund-raising events through 2008.
Please keep helping to save the valley from the builders.
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