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Graham Ellis
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Chippenham to Melksham - a painful journey to become more so?
« on: May 29, 2007, 08:24:57 PM »

With Westbury Bypass getting th enext stage of approval the other week, has anyone through what will happen to all the extra traffic when it comes off the end of the bypass and carries on up the A350 towards Chippenham?



This is the schene this afternoon, with a queue in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY of about 20 minutes to get into Melksham.  So you see the frustrated motorist who is turning out of the queue to look for another route through the country lanes?

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Re: Chippenham to Melksham - a painful journey to become more so?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2007, 05:02:42 PM »

My guess is the extra traffic will simply cause futher congestion at other places along the road such as though Beanacre and around the Morrisons roundabout in Chippenham. 
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Re: Chippenham to Melksham - a painful journey to become more so?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2007, 05:37:05 PM »

Transport 2000 have asked the government to "call in" the bypass scheme (link below.)
http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/westbury_letter.pdf
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Re: Chippenham to Melksham - a painful journey to become more so?
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 10:36:04 AM »

There will be a live webchat with Dr Stephen Ladyman , Roads Minister at 1500 today (06/06/2007.) See link below.
http://www.webchat.pm.gov.uk/webchat_live.asp
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