Ernie Clark. Hilperton Division, Wiltshire Council.

Proposed ban on HGVs Cleveland Bridge, Bath.

It would seem that B&NES might have shot itself in the foot.

I have posted information on this site from B&NES regarding their proposals and correspondence from Wiltshire Council, Somerset County Council and the Highways Agency raising objections to the Secretary of State.

It now transpires that what is being proposed is not, as claimed, a restriction on through HGV traffic, but a restriction on HGVs turning right from the A36 Beckford Road into Bathwick Street or turning left from Bathwick Street into the A36 Beckford Road.

Looking at these proposals it appears that there will be nothing to stop HGVs heading instead to the roundabout at the bottom of Bathwick Hill, doing a 'U turn' at the roundabout and then driving back to the Bathwick Street/Beckford Road junction and continuing on their original planned route.

This would actually ADD to the traffic and fumes and defeat the object of the ban.

Very, very bizarre!!