The buses from the Town Centre in Melksham that go to Bath are currently going non-stop from the Market Place to the outskirts at Shurnhold (out beyond the station), missing several town centre stops including those which are nearest to Sainsbury's, Somerfield, and Cooper Avon Tires.



The roads to Sainsburys and Cooper Tires are actually open - but an intermediate section of the main road (Bank Street) is shut:



There was a closure of the same road earlier this year, and the traders were furious about it as it hit their businesses quite badly. But unfortunately something was wrong with the closure order so that the extra work (widening the pavement outside the Liberal club) wasn't done at the same time.

The traders are, once again, very unhappy - this was to be a closure of around 10 weeks, I understand, and the people with businesses effected were concerned about the loss of business in the run up to Christmas.   But that's all right now  as the closure has been reduced to 4 weeks, with another one in the new year.



The owner of this shop was telling one of the delegates who came on the course I was running this week that he'd only had four customers come in on the whole of the previous day.  I don't know what his regular figures are (to make a comparison) nor how much the regular traffic would be down because of the financial issues as the moment - but I'm sure this street scene plays at least some part.