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Topic: Fun And Games At Westbury Town Council (Read 2301 times)
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Graham Ellis
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It tends to get very split and heated from what I have read .... I particularly noted a comment from someone who posted up that someone from Melksham shouldn't have followed up on the thread because they weren't from the town ... while at the same time the argument was raging around traffic flows and encouraging a new road scheme which would push more traffic up the A350 through Yarnbrook, Melksham, Beanacre and Chicken. It seems that some NIMBYs are alive and kicking  |
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John
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Here is a good account of the 5 November Westbury Town Council meeting:  ... in the Warminster Journal. No doubt the comment that anyone who does not live in Westbury should not follow their affairs came from someone who moved to a home on the A350 route in Westbury in recent years. |
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Pete
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No doubt the comment that anyone who does not live in Westbury should not follow their affairs came from someone who moved to a home on the A350 route in Westbury in recent years.
Tut tut John, If I have something to say, I'll say it under my own name. Unlike a lot of the spineless morons who comment on the WT threads I have nothing to hide. Thanks for thinking of me though.
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Graham Ellis
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I live in Melksham, and feel that I should steer well clear of the internal politics of other towns - except where those politics have an effect on my own town. Very often that can be positive, and indeed it should be, with everyone coming together for a common good of the area. Indeed - the TransWilts is a classic example of that, isn't it? Of course, it gets that little harder where the interests of one group / town and their movement forward have a significant negative effect on another town - where the attractive development of one town centre could bleed trade from a neighbour, or where a traffic scheme to ban heavy lorries from one city could lead to pressure on the road through another town.
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John
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I live in Warminster, also on the TransWilts line, I think. I agree that the TransWilts railway should be supported for the common good of the area. I think that the principal investment of public money for transport should be in our railways and the supporting infrastructure.
Warminster and Melksham railway stations are small compared to Westbury, which is the meeting place of many lines, from where you can travel to London in both directions. By Westbury station is the designated site of a planned rail freight facility; the land for which is safeguarded in the West Wiltshire District Plan.
I was in North Bradley the other day and just happened to notice a fleet of five heavy trucks, which had come from the direction of the Somerset stone quarries, winding around the minor roads, probably on their way to go through Melksham. Such heavy vehicles are a frequent sight in North Bradley. It is plain enough to me that life could be improved, or even our environment better safeguarded, if such heavy material movement was by railway. Of course, the right political will and the supporting infrastructure are needed.
Other local communities, such as Southwick, Rode, Yarnbrook, West Ashton etc, indeed wider afield, certainly do not merit having extra heavy vehicles passing through as a result of any short-sighted road scheme or narrow political ambition which may improve life for some at the expense of others.
By the way, I too have only occasionally posted on the infamous WT forums, which have become a last refuge for the silliest of people, and only with regard to pointing out facts about comparative road schemes, to redress the balance and in my own name.
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« Last Edit: November 21, 2007, 09:48:30 AM by John »
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