I read with interest that Wiltshire County Council and North Wiltshire District Council are going ahead with the changes to New Road and the subway in conjunction with Network Rail works on the viaduct.

This work will only create more congestion in Chippenham and drive away even more of the few shoppers that now visit the town. No doubt this scheme has been little thought out other than some councillor's bright idea on how to continue the ruination of Chippenham as a market town.

You only need to look at the High Street to see how these bright ideas end up a pedestrianised area with traffic having to make deliveries or for works purposes now issued with permits, problems that our council was made fully aware of at the time and as usual chose to ignore as they will ignore the general public on this latest bright idea.

A.L.Fellenor

Chippenham