Organisations which were against the eastern Westbury bypass scheme suggest integrated traffic solutions based on strategic
access roads and what is in place.
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www.corridor-alliance.co.uk - now the website of the White Horse Alliance, an umbrella grouping formed in 2007 to
stop the Eastern Westbury Bypass - with various recent campaign information.
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Wiltshire's barmy eastern bypass plan died after exposure to common sense.
The CPRE award was recycled into other environmentally concerned campaigns.
Wiltshire Council has awarded the outgoing director of its barmy bypass project, which wasted £5 million, with a generous
£67K 'compensation for loss of office'.
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Inner bypass roads proposed by Wiltshire (County) Council for Salisbury,
which were campaigned against, also had
Government funding refused.
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Restore UK supported the campaign against the eastern bypass project.
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Manuka fund assisted the anti eastern campaign - Weekend Telegraph.
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Here is a group which supported an eastern bypass around Westbury.
We might have included a link to the failed Westbury Bypass NOW! group.
But the 'Bypass NOW!' website now appears to
have been abandoned.
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Here is a website about another unsuitable road plan in the South-West.
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Here is a local website about our endangered railway services in Wiltshire.
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www.savethetrain.org.uk - Save the Trains. The Trans-Wilts rail line -
via
Warminster, Westbury, Melksham & Chippenham - parallels the A350 (which Wiltshire County Council aimed to build a series of
bypasses along) but this existing railway (now with few trains on it) is starved of funding.
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And here is what used to be the iron-age hill-fort at Twyford Down:
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