Melksham Area - Transport - identifying and solving issues. 17th January 2012, meeting organised by Community Area Partnership Town Hall at 6.30pm, with refreshments from 6pm. The meeting is free and informal, and open to anyone.

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 ...
* Interchangability of tickets buses / trains
* Car parking for employees of town centre businesses
* Demand responsive Transport

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 (Graham Ellis) 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!

I have provided maps online showing many of the know issues - see http://tinyurl.com/757qzv6