| Manvers Street, Bath, disrupted for reconstruction works for 6 months from May. Posted by Mark A at 15:32, 16th April 2026 |     |
Vault woes among other things. With the recent failure on St James Parade, Bath may be approaching the vault collapse horizon.
Manvers Street sounds to be going to be completely closed for this work, something that is going to be challenging for the people using buses/trains (and the companies trying to provide a service...).
Mark
https://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/community/six-month-rebuild-manvers-street-begin-may-116876/
| Re: Manvers Street, Bath, disrupted for reconstruction works for 6 months from May. Posted by John D at 16:33, 16th April 2026 | |
Interesting the article mentions concrete slabs added in 1940s. Manvers Street had a tram route until 1939 so wonder if these slabs were part of its track removal and replacement.
Of course with those big rotary diamond saws that fit on front of large bobcat machines, can probably cut the road surface into manageable size pieces in couple of days. That leaves 5.9 months to remove it and lay new stronger road
...... But as this is a Council run job, it will probably be couple of blokes doing odd bits of work between sitting in their van having long tea breaks which explains the timescale
| Re: Manvers Street, Bath, disrupted for reconstruction works for 6 months from May. Posted by grahame at 16:44, 16th April 2026 | |
https://www.mtug.org.uk/ruh.html
Except ... the start date has been pushed back 12 days - I have just heard and will be updating!
| Re: Manvers Street, Bath, disrupted for reconstruction works for 6 months from May. Posted by Mark A at 17:49, 16th April 2026 | |
Wondering if your leaflet, regarding the arrangements for the buses, has a scoop. Also thinking that even the walk from the station to the Guildhall isn't brilliant from the accessibility perspective, but what's a city to do...
Mark
| Re: Manvers Street, Bath, disrupted for reconstruction works for 6 months from May. Posted by grahame at 18:47, 16th April 2026 | |
Wondering if your leaflet, regarding the arrangements for the buses, has a scoop. Also thinking that even the walk from the station to the Guildhall isn't brilliant from the accessibility perspective, but what's a city to do...
It's been in the Favesaver x31,228,231,271/2/3 online timetables for about 3 weeks, but that's not somewhere most passengers look very often. Our MTUG timetable that covers all Melksham buses, trains and coaches has gone to the printers with it included. But we are first to publicise its more widely; Faresaver will have a shorter and sharper campaign starting at the beginning of next month. Bath City council have been able to shorten the planned closures by overlapping then and have come to the (belated?) attention of the hospital and train connection issue to service coming in along Lodon Road,
The RUH is the main major hospital for Chippenham, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon and Trowbridge and the Wiltshire Council bus team are aware of the issue and we have messaged about it. Trowbridge and B-o-A can use the D1 which still goes to the bus station. And you'll note MTUG has a web page that can be updated, and has suggested that people follow us on Facebook where we will update too.
