Not convinced by the arguments for CAZ

It is reported that Wiltshire Council ‘are getting in an egg’ about more heavy lorries on their roads because of Bath’s CAZ.

Well, that’s a bit rich, after years of their having ‘bounced borders’ with their HGVS, especially from Colerne.

The situation has been exacerbated by Cllr Joanna Wright’s refusal to address 40 years of this problem in Batheaston.

There are even prominent signs from the Ditteridge turning at Ashley, directing lorries through Batheaston, where sadly there are no NO 2 monitors!

If Cllr Wright is such a keen cyclist, why has she not repaired all the badly damaged road-margins and pot-holes in and around Bath?

May I draw your readers’ attention to the brilliant and timely letter last week from Dr John Potjewyd, who asked to see B&NES figures in detail, historically, for claimed NO pollution.

Are the readings verifiable actual data, or simply ‘guesstimates’?

What most Bath residents know only too well, is that it doesn’t take a costly, and in my opinion very descriminatory, CAZ to stop the majority of pollution, just a link from the A46 across to the A36 Warminster Road.

Or even better, direct it back into Wiltshire!

Given that the CAZ is costing £20m to install, and thereafter running costs of £2m a year, I think ‘this joanna is playing the wrong tune.’

I suspect that she is hoping soon to swap her bicycle for a Ministerial car.

Ian Walker’s letter (18/3/21) trying to stifle dissent is typical of those who misunderstand the basis of a democracy.