Even More Busses through Twerton

Following my post in July concerning the state of the roads across the Twerton area, I am extremely concerned to see we now have an additional bus service running!

We now have a number 17 service being run by Wessex Connect that comes up Watery Lane, Poolemead Road, Wedgewood Road, Kelston View, North Way and then on around areas of Southdown before going back through town and up to the University of Bath.  This bus service is running from 6.45am with the last bus scheduled to come through Twerton at approx 3.15am

This now means that the above roads have almost 200 large busses EVERY DAY running on them. These are residential roads most of which are in urgent need of radical replacement as they were deemed not to be in a fit state to take the original level of bus usage, let alone the additional quantity now being run.

There is an infant school on one of the roads and large numbers of children playing near them, putting safe routes to school in danger and also increasing the risk of children not only being injured by the increased traffic, but their health will also be affected by the increased pollution being produced across this area.

I have written to the Council this morning and requested that immediate action is taken to remedy this situation.

Kelston View

I had a great time meeting residents along Kelston View this afternoon this afternoon, it was very pleasant to catch up with some old friends.

This afternoon follows up a larger team canvass on Saturday morning led by Gerry Curran.

Issues that have been raised are the subsidence of Kelston View and also that of parking. I picked up quite a few individual pieces of casework that I will be replying to in the next few days.

Boolards repaired on Twerton High Street

replaced bollard

The bollards that were knocked out on the corner of High Street & Dominion Road have been replaced after pressure from you local councillors.

We hope that now the bollards are back in place there will not be the parking on the footpath that has cracked so many paving stones over the past few months.

New Parking Restrictions in Place

looking up by the side of Cleeve Court

New Parking restrictions have been put in place at Cleeve Green & Newton Road after requests from Tim & Gerry.

New yellow lines have been put in place on the corners of the road Junctions with Newton Road and further up opposite Cleeve Court.

looking across to Cleeve Court.

We would hope that this would make these Junctions safer for Children when they are going to School, also introduced further up is bollards to stop coaches and lorries damaging the grassed area.