The figures are within Wiltshire County Council's data for the Westbury Bypass planning application.

You can see how adjacent community Southwick already suffers from over twice the HGV flow of Westbury.

An Eastern bypass means more HGVs outside of Westbury.   A Western route could give all-round relief.

The -96% change forecast for Westbury's Station Road with an Eastern Bypass is actually to be fixed by putting restrictions on it. Which would disadvantage rail users and local companies.   But why did not WCC show the same 96% reduction on Station Road for the Western route?  Because WCC do not like the way that the overall HGV reductions by a western bypass look so superior?

Read on for more about how an eastern Westbury bypass would increase HGV flow elsewhere...

Rode, Southwick, North Bradley, Yarnbrook, West Ashton etc would be worse-off with an eastern bypass.

There are about the same number of homes which would suffer badly from yet more HGVs passing by them in these other communities as there are homes in Westbury which could benefit from an eastern bypass.

Is this a fair comparison?  No.  These other communities already endure over twice the number of HGVs (typically ten times the size of any car) going at about twice the speed of those through Westbury.

Other statistics by WCC show that the traffic through the centre of Westbury rose by only 1% each year between 2000 to 2005 and decreased by 2% in the last year of the counting period.  But do WCC tell you?

Compare this with the forecast increases from the first year of the opening of an eastern Westbury bypass, for example 9% extra HGVs through Southwick and North Bradley, a 42% increase of HGVs at Yarnbrook.

In the recent year in which traffic fell in Westbury, existing traffic through West Ashton and Yarnbrook rose. The existing traffic burden at Southwick, also with more than twice the HGVs of Westbury, has risen too.

Over 2000-2005, traffic increased by 8% at Southwick and by up to 24% at West Ashton (Stoney Gutter).

With an eastern Westbury bypass, the nearby communities, with more traffic now, would suffer a lot more.

Yet Wiltshire County Council wants to spend enormous amounts of public money on a selfish road scheme which would benefit the comparatively better off and worsen the lives of the already worse off.

Table 3.3 gives a glimpse of how a Far Western Westbury Bypass can equitably benefit the whole area.

These forecasts are within WCC's planning information for its eastern Westbury bypass scheme.

But attention is only being drawn to them by environmental and transport campaigners.