The Conservatives are really trying hard to push through a controversial bus rapid transit road (nicknamed Richter’s Road to Ruin) in Bath following on from park and ride controversies in Bathampton. The planning issues have created a storm within the Conservative group – see CHRONICLE STORY .

The Liberal Democrats have offered an alternative to Richter’s Conservative’s crazy road solution based on bus priorities using the Lower and Upper Bristol road. However the Conservatives refuse to evaluate the option and we are certainly heading for a showdown on a 1 mile road that will save no time, blight peoples lives, destroy a green corridor and cost millions to achieve very little.

Meanwhile the Bath Western Riverside project is collapsing fast LINK  and without that development it makes proceeding with the rapid transit system even less rational. I the two years that the Conservatives have been the administration we have lost a Bath Spa University project, a Dyson project and now the Riverside looks increasingly at risk. At least projects we started are now coming to fruition – the Southgate, Milsom Place, EPHs and more.