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« on: April 13, 2025, 08:15:33 »

Long background on my personal blog at https://www.grahamellis.uk/blog1565.html

This new thread will contain a full agenda and papers over coming weeks.  For the moment

13th May 2025, 19:00, Melksham Community Campus
All Welcome - not just welcome - encouraged to come along
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2025, 12:58:17 »

Email to people with a registered interest in the Melksham Transport Use Group

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[[Following is an announcement - see also personal note at end ]]

Ladies and Gentlemen

Last week was a huge news week - internationally, for the UK (United Kingdom) and locally, and our Melksham Transport User Group meeting on 13th May failed to make the cut for the Melksham News in amongst elections, VE Day preparations and the rest. That is totally their editorial decision - but very disappointing personally as I look to re-envigourate our public transport user group.

The steps public transport has taken forward in the last couple of years are incredible - but they are just steps and much remains to be done. As a community, we need to inform and encourage "our own" to use public transport - providing help and information for residents, and infomation and encouragement to operators and specifiers and to those who influence them for us via local and central government.

There is no panic to reset next week or even next month - much of this is longer term stuff - but there is a need to keep our community input active to ensure we are not overlooked and left further behing than Melksham is already. And that's both by promoting and using current services, and working for better future ones.

The meeting on 13th May goes ahead - at 19:00 at The Campus (SN12 6ES) and all are welcome.  All are not only welcome but more than that - encouraged - to attend.  Not just a meeting for the sake of a meeting - an update on transport and travel and a rallying call and look forward.

This notice is circulated to several dozen friends and colleagues who have been / are working on this with me in interest and will also be shared wider

Graham

Graham Ellis - graham@sn12.net
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07974 925 928 / 01225 708225
48 Spa Road, Melksham SN12 7NY, UK

Personal note - I think I am more exhausted than I care to admit - perhaps due to what I have found to be pressures of four years as a Town Councillor - and I have let some of the public transport elements lapse. But yet there has been some excellent stuff going on and I look forward to a revival of my activities, though still looking to pass much of mante on to a wider group.  I’m styling this late spring and early summer as a recharge  / sabbatical - some envigourating updating already for anyone who follows me on social media, and Lisa an I are headed off physically a couple of days after next week’s meeting for both a recharge break and - knowing us - for learning more about transport issues in the land of far, far away.
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2025, 09:52:18 »

Presentation / text for this evening - https://www.passenger.chat/mirror/mtug_20250513.pdf (subject to late change)
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