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Details of town centre improvements are currently being refined following comments received at the public exhibition in June 2007.
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Background
The construction of Westbury Bypass would remove heavy through traffic that severs the town centre community providing the opportunity to make the town centre area more accessible, especially to non-car users, and create a healthy and vibrant commercial centre that is easy to get to, pleasant to visit and the 'hub' of community life.
 The proposals for the town centre include extensive measures to improve conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and users of public transport. With the town centre less dominated by road traffic conditions can be improved for pedestrians by reallocating 'freed' road space to create pedestrian friendly areas. This would include the widening footways and providing pedestrianised areas and safe crossings, so that visitors and shoppers could move freely and easily within the central area.
The intention would be to make the town centre more attractive to visit and shop in, which in turn would help promote economic activity and sustain local businesses.
A comprehensive cycle network, which already has a number of links in place, would be developed. The primary aim of the network would be to provide safe routes to schools, the town centre and other community facilities, such as the rail station and leisure centre. The network would generally make use of lightly trafficked residential streets, although some key links would be provided by widening existing footways and providing new off-road cycleways.
These may include entrance features, narrowings, speed tables and pedestrian crossings to create pedestrian friendly areas. Traffic calming measures are also considered on through routes in residential areas in order to discourage traffic from 'rat-running' and using these roads.
In partnership with West Wiltshire District Council the Market Place, Maristow Street and the High Street/Edward Street are also being considered for improvement.
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