Integrated transport schemes

The Wichelstowe Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) will support the public transport network, which will connect Wichelstowe, once this strategic development site is fully built out with Swindon town centre. Funding for this initiative came from the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership’s Local Growth Fund.

This project involved the delivery of three highway schemes along the routes linking Wichelstowe and the town centre. The following infrastructure works for a QBC were undertaken:

• Re-modelling of the approaches to Mannington Roundabout, improving capacity for all users and to complement the bus priority at the junction of Wootton Bassett Road and Penzance Drive, when this becomes fully operational
• Widening of a section of Pipers Way, where property boundaries allowed, to enable the introduction of a bus lane for town centre-bound services
• Creation of a continuous bus lane from the eastern end of Commercial Road to Princes Street through Regent Circus by rationalising the highway layout in this area. Additionally, there are now enhanced facilities for bus passengers and improvements for pedestrians through the widening of footways.

The following plan may provide further information:

• Wichelstowe to Swindon quality bus corridor overview plan (PDF)