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Moredon Bridge housing start Not a bright idea

Construction has started on 200 houses on Purton Road, between After three years persuading Swindon Council that the speed limit
Thamesdown Drive and the Swindon to Gloucester railway bridge. on Tadpole Lane outside the two special schools in North Swindon
The site is outside Swindon’s Thamesdown Drive and widening should be reduced, staff were outraged in early April to discover council
boundaries in Wiltshire and de- the road to make a right in lane from contractors had attached a 50mph to the school signpost.
spite being turned down by North West Swindon.
Wiltshire Council
(now Wiltshire
Council), Swindon
Borough Council
and residents, the
planning applica-
tion was passed on
appeal.
Vehicle access
will be created by a
left in slip road from

Bridge being discussed by legal teams
Mandy Coakley and Lorna Breslin, not impressed by Tadpole Lane speed sign
An old railway bridge in North Swindon will have to be replaced by
the Swindon and Cricklade Railway if it is to achieve its dream of Special needs teacher and health leaving. There have been so many
restoring the heritage line from its base at Blunsdon Station to Taw and safety offi cer Lorna Breslin said near misses.”
Valley Halt at Mouldon Hill Park. the school has a log of the many A council spokesman said,
In the April Link Taw Hill resi- legal teams acting on behalf of a incidents where speeding drivers “the contractors putting up new
dent Tim Lundy queried whether nearby landowner and the Swindon have nearly smashed into mini- legally-required 50mph repeater
the bridge should be demolished. and Cricklade Railway Ltd. so it busses full of children. She said, signs along Tadpole Lane used an
Swindon Council who lease the would be inappropriate to com- “last year the council put down existing sign pole because it was
railway land and the bridge to the ment further.” road markings on either side of cheaper than putting up a new one,
railway society, said legal issues A report by Halcrow engineering the entrance to indicate a school. and reduces clutter at the roadside.
are being dealt with. A spokesman consultancy has deemed the bridge Then they put up a sign showing “Now it’s been drawn to our at-
commented, “the council has been unsafe for use by a railway. drivers how fast they can go past tention we have moved the sign to
made aware there may be a health The society hopes legal issues our entrance. Children come to a more appropriate place.”
and safety issue with one of the can be dealt with over the next few the schools by mini-bus and taxi The school is continuing to call
railway line crossings to the north months and volunteers can lay track from all over Swindon, but many on the council to install even clearer
of Mouldon Hill. so that trains can run to Mouldon drivers seem to ignore they might messages to drivers such as solar
“The matter is in the hands of Hill by Easter 2011. be turning into the driveway or powered fl ashing notices.

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