Thousands of new homes get £30m road, council promises underpass art 'in due course'
Wichel Way opens beneath the M4 after seven years in planning, with a welcoming gateway mural pencilled in for roughly never.
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Transport
Roads, roundabouts, buses, trains and the long wait between them.
Victoria Road bus stop ruled 'unsafe', offered a fresh start down the hill
After years of friction on an S-bend, the stop is being rehomed between Dumbarton Terrace and Hunt Street for everyone's sake.
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GWR to replace trains with buses for two weekends, insists nothing supernatural about the timing
Rail passengers through Swindon are warned that the scariest thing this Halloween will be the 10.53 to Bristol, which simply will not exist.
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Cheney Manor firm's bid for two extra lorries and trailers triggers 21 day window of civic suspense
G A Plant and Tool Hire wants to keep two more goods vehicles and two more trailers on its patch, and the nation has three weeks to feel strongly about it.
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Direct Swindon to Birmingham train timeline revealed, estimated arrival roughly 2030
A four year wait to find out about a potential ten year wait is being hailed as a major step forward.
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Burst water main shuts Blunsdon to Highworth road for third consecutive day, road now reportedly 'settling in'
Thames Water says the closure may be revised again, which locals have translated as 'it will be shut forever and we have made our peace with it.'
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Drivers queue up to ignore hole warning on Pipers Way, Swindon
Despite a full road closure, a six foot sign, and a crater you could lose a Nationwide branch in, motorists keep turning up like it is a tourist attraction with a car park at the end.
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Drivers told to drive to Bath and back to avoid 730 metres of road near Marlborough
Wiltshire Council confirms the shortest way round a closed stretch of the A346 is, officially, the longest way round anything.
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Swindon marks fifty years of a train so smooth you could balance a coffee cup on it, several volunteers determined to prove it
Rail enthusiasts recreated the historic 1976 Paddington to Bristol run, and at least one platform turned into an impromptu physics experiment involving hot drinks.
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