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Moving busstop!

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-09-30 18:19:43 - Graham Ellis

It can't have been more that a year ago that a new bus stop was provided for us at "The Spa" ... or rather a new bus shelter and some nice, slip proof kerbstones; the bus stop had been there when we moved to Melksham in 1999 and probably for many years prior to that.

Imagine my surprise, then, to find that our lovely new bus stop is marked up with yellow paint for removal from its current location to a new spot 20 yards or so up the road, to make way - it would appear - for a new pedestrian crossing. It's all a part of the Melksham Oak Community School works as it's on the main pedestrian drag out there, and a wider crossing is wise. But you would have thought that a bit more joined up thinking would have been involved rather than put it in, tear it out, put it in again elsewhere. I wonder if this is at taxpayer's expense, or at the expense of bus passengers.