We need sustainable integrated transport solutions, not a ruinous rural bypass.
A mass assembly against an eastern bypass in 2003 had an excellent turn-out and was the lead event in that
evening's West of England television news. We walked up to the White Horse, some of us returning by the
Wellhead Springs.
There was another large gathering at the West Wiltshire District Council offices, in 2003. An overwhelming
majority of the public who were allowed to address the councillors spoke against an Eastern bypass.
And local employers pleaded for a Western road, which they thought essential for effective transport links.
Many came for the walk along the eastern route in the wet Autumn of 2007.
You can help, by making your opinion known to the appropriate people.
Write a short letter to Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Transport, Great Minster House,
76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR, asking her never to fund a damaging eastern bypass
and instead to encourage Wiltshire County Council to consider the lower cost better alternative of a western road.
It is a chance to protest at the White Horse to Wellhead Valley being carved-up and to join in
to help to protect the spectacular countryside above Westbury.
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