Melksham Area - buses, trains, cycles, and roads. Meeting, 17.1.2012

This TUESDAY evening ... are YOU available?

Melksham Town Hall on Tuesday January 17th at 6.30pm, with refreshments from 6pm. The meeting is free and informal, and open to anyone who would like to contribute or simply listen. If you need a lift home after the meeting, let me know - I'm aware that the last buses / connections to Broughton Gifford, Bulkington, Great Hinton, Keevil, Seend, and Steeple Ashton will be long since gone.

There are a number of travel and transport issues that effect the Melksham Community Area such as:
* Train Services (or lack thereof) at Melksham Station
* Buses running 2-per-hour - 2 minutes apart, then a 58 minute gap
* Cycle routes that have "no cycling" sections (in town, and on the canal from Melksham to Chippenham)
* Public footpaths which are impassible / impossible to find, such as Blueberry Road (Melksham) to Redstocks
* Provision of rubbish bins along footpaths
* Missing links in the road network such as Portal Road to the Westinghouse Road / Lancaster Way roundabout
* Public Transport services for villages such as Poulshot
* Information on public transport, public transport fares, and current operational information
* Asda Bus, Town Bus, Free Bus ...
* Interchangeability of tickets buses / trains
* Car parking for employees of town centre businesses
* Demand responsive Transport
- This is NOT a complete list ...

Following the identification of transport priorities, the Melksham Community Area Partnership will be holding its first Transport meeting of the year to discuss the issues in depth, and Eddy Watts and myself have been invited to act attend / help out in the discussion with some of our respective backgrounds and help the MCAP (who's function is to report back to the area board, acting as their eyes and ears in the community) put some meet on the bones, identify which topics are within their remit - and hopefully move some of them forward. There are one or two which may have really cheap solutions!

Travel and Transport issues are uniquely cross-area, and we'll need to work with neighboring community areas on some issues. Transport into Devizes from Poulshot effects Devizes, the Melksham to Chippenham cycleway problem comes under Corsham, and bus and train links effect numerous areas - going right outside Wiltshire when we look at travel from the Melksham area to Bath, Swindon and beyond.

Images are Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright 2012, and reproduced here under the Open Government License for public sector information - see [here]

Map - extra road at Bowerhill

Section of road needed to link A350 to Bowerhill

Map - extra road at Melksham Station

Section of road needed to link North Melksham to Railway Station

Map - path behind Melksham House

Section of cycleway needed to provide link across Melksham House land

Map - transport issues that go out of area

Issues which run into neighboring Community Areas

(written 2012-01-15, updated 2012-01-28)

Associated topics are indexed under

Z511 - Public Transport - Road
  [4032] Easier public transport from Melksham to Bristol Airport - (2013-03-06)
  [4023] Melksham to Chippenham (Station) bus services - times and routes - (2013-03-01)
  [4022] A request for all of Melksham transport groups to work integrated - (2013-03-01)
  [3951] Christmas Bus Schedule for Melksham - First Bus - (2012-12-14)
  [3938] A long overdue meeting - a steeping stone towards coordinate transport user inputs - (2012-12-02)
  [3937] Agenda for Wiltshire Link Travel groups meeting, Saturday 1st December 2012 - (2012-11-27)
  [3929] Melksham Bus Issues - to be raised at First Bus Customer Panel - (2012-11-21)
  [3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how! - (2012-10-26)
  [3893] Public Transport across Wiltshire - a new map - (2012-10-13)
  [3879] Mixed mode travel - Information systems - (2012-10-03)
  [3877] Public Transport Services - from and to Melksham - (2012-10-01)
  [3866] Celebrate! Buses from Meksham to Bath - (2012-09-18)
  [3850] Bus times - Chippenham Station to Melksham, with London connections - (2012-08-25)
  [3849] New bus times - Melksham to Bath - (2012-08-25)
  [3699] Bristol 50? Bristol 25? - (2012-04-17)
  [3631] Getting around Dublin by public transport - some observations - (2012-03-01)
  [3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn? - (2012-01-15)
  [3564] I wish I was not a special case - (2011-12-29)
  [3523] When competition is not a good idea - Melksham Bus Absurdity - (2011-11-16)
  [3504] Coaches from Trowbridge and Melksham to London - (2011-11-01)
  [3487] Public transport - road and rail - (2011-10-19)
  [3486] How important is public transport to people in the Melksham area? - (2011-10-19)
  [3471] Vintage Bus Running Day in Warminster. An example of good bus practise. - (2011-10-09)
  [3404] Buses on the Cambridge Guided Busway - (2011-08-24)
  [3301] Using public transport - USA style - (2011-05-25)
  [3290] Changes (and no changes) at Melksham bus stops - (2011-05-15)
  [3194] Buses - what they cost and their future direction in the SW and in Wiltshire - (2011-03-06)
  [3126] Car Parking in Melksham - thoughts on the proposed scheme, and wider thoughts too - (2011-01-09)
  [2983] Strong arm tactics in the bus industry? Poor result for the customer! - (2010-10-03)
  [2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026 - (2010-10-03)
  [2958] What do these road markings mean? Could Confusion Kill? - (2010-09-17)
  [2933] Bath - Melksham - Devizes buses from September - (2010-08-23)
  [2919] London to Calne, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, Chippenham by public Transport - (2010-08-13)
  [2903] Bath to Devizes bus via Melksham - changing again in September - (2010-08-04)
  [2857] Park and Ride at Batheaston - will it solve Wiltshires Ills? - (2010-07-06)
  [2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times - (2010-06-03)
  [2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London) - (2010-06-02)
  [2771] Melksham to Calne by public transport - (2010-05-20)
  [2672] Dear Planners, please provide viable alternatives - (2010-03-11)
  [2662] Is Melksham public transport actually used? - (2010-03-05)
  [2533] Five guests, three groups, one car - (2009-12-11)
  [2522] Integrated public Transport - what could be done for Melksham - (2009-12-01)
  [2515] Why we have two buses an hour - but not a half hourly service - (2009-11-28)
  [2431] Moving busstop! - (2009-09-30)
  [2372] Public Transport from (and to) Melksham on Sundays - (2009-08-23)
  [2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town - (2009-08-08)
  [2268] Westbury Bypass Refused - looking forward - (2009-07-04)
  [2083] Do you support a decent train service? Please sign up! - (2009-03-15)
  [2075] Supporting Parkinsons and Trains - (2009-03-11)
  [1777] The Rise and Rise of First Bus Fares - (2008-08-29)
  [1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (2008-07-26)
  [1668] Talk on TransWilts train service to Green Party - (2008-06-07)
  [1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car - (2008-03-07)
  [1560] HST Power Car TravelWatch SouthWest - (2008-03-01)
  [1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
  [1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
  [1315] Two years of campaigning for a train service - (2007-08-22)
  [1254] Comparing bus stops - (2007-07-01)
  [1125] Train service - petititon reply - (2007-03-31)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [818] Heard, yes. Considered, no. The case for the train. - (2006-07-30)
  [764] Journey planning - Xephos v Transport Direct - (2006-06-16)
  [474] Vintage Bus Day - (2005-10-23)
  [459] Kiss and Ride - (2005-10-09)
  [187] a popular bus number - (2005-01-23)
  [119] PHP course. Come by train. - (2004-11-15)

Z531 - Cycling and Walking
  [3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures - (2012-06-21)
  [3689] Can I cycle or ride my mobility scooter on the pavement? - (2012-04-07)
  [2707] A walk on the Kennet and Avon - (2010-04-04)
  [2666] Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development - (2010-03-08)
  [3231] Footpath, Bridleway, Byway, Road used as Public Path - (2011-04-04)
  [2858] The healthy option - away from the private car - (2010-07-07)
  [3228] What can you take on a public footpath? Pram? Wheelbarrow? Dog? Shopping Trolley? Horse? Cycle? - (2011-04-03)
  [2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without - (2010-04-02)
  [3216] Images of a Spring Walk - (2011-03-27)
  [2709] Old trackways and routes near Melksham - (2010-04-05)
  [2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-21)
  [3023] Autumn walk from Bowerhill - (2010-10-31)
  [1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor - (2008-09-19)
  [2490] Friendly Hotel in Melksham, near Bath - (2009-11-02)
  [3376] Kennet and Avon - Walk from Bedwyn to Pewsey. TransWilts day out. - (2011-08-01)
  [1640] Walking on The Wiltshire Downs - (2008-05-12)

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