Date published: 2024-08-07 | Category: Bath, Delivering for local residents, Roads, travel and transport, Transport and Development
Council statement on Lower Lansdown experimental traffic restrictions: Following a legal challenge, we paused the Lower Lansdown Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) on Thursday 1 August, pending a hearing due on 8 August.
As a result, we lost the allocated period with our contractor for delivering the project. The work was carefully scheduled to have started on Monday 5 August, during the school holidays and avoiding other large interventions being delivered on the network.
We are therefore not contesting the hearing that was due to take place on Thursday 8 August as we would not have been able to proceed with the project immediately, whatever the outcome.
We are now taking the opportunity provided by this pause to remedy any specific minor technical issues brought to our attention during the legal proceedings.
We will be introducing a new ETRO for Lower Lansdown as soon as possible.
Councillor Manda Rigby, Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “We thank the residents involved for raising the issues that they have now so we can rectify any needing further clarification before proceeding. We will be bringing forward a new ETRO in the very near future. We are committed to the delivery of our Liveable Neighbourhoods programme, which aims to bring significant health and wellbeing benefits to our communities.”
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