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Our Key Objections
1) The BRT will have an enormously negative impact on the quality of our living environment. In Newbridge and Lower
Weston, the proposed route will do huge damage to the health and sustainability of our community as it cuts through
the heart of the residential area - forever destroying a well-established, significant green space.
The stretch will see buses passing extremely close to homes along a mile long tarmac strip
- causing pollution, vibration, noise and visual intrusion. The road will form a hard, physical barrier along the
length of our community. Some people will be forced to sell their gardens to make way for the road.
2) Cost over-runs are inevitable as the scheme has major feasibility issues and risks which
the council will not be able to manage. This undoubtedly will be at the tax payer's expense.
The number of empty Park and Ride buses passing through the area today suggests the route will not be financially
sustainable, and will never pay for itself.
3) The claimed benefits will never be achieved. The route is as likely to add to congestion
as to reduce it, particularly where it will cross Newbridge Road and the notoriously congested Windsor Bridge Road.
4) It will generate more traffic as people who would otherwise travel into Bath by train or bus will be encouraged
to drive.
5) Out-of-scale, flashy, bendy buses will avoid the least congested west side of Bath, only to continue along the
narrow city centre streets clogging up Bath's most crowded roads in the east.
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