Local authority core strategies are where the action is on shaping future travel patterns

Jenny Raggett

In the late-1980s the fringes of Bristol, Weston-super-Mare and Yate were being covered with a brave new landscape of distributor roads, mini-roundabouts and cul de sacs. In neighbouring Wiltshire a number of towns were being expanded to this model, in particular the county town of Trowbridge. Out-of-town business parks were also in vogue and, although little related to town centres, both these and the new housing development were ideally placed for access to ring roads, bypasses, dual...

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