Bath & Wiltshire Metro

Bath+Wiltshire Metro  proposes to upgrade the existing rail track, so the present worst service of one train every two hours can become two trains per hour, and the best service of 3.5 trains/hour can be 6 trains/hour. It is achieved by relatively cheap interventions to remove bottlenecks, and the introduction of local shuttle services between the long distance trains. Local shuttles are much more resilient to delays.

Chippenham and Trowbridge are potential hub towns of ConnectedCites on the network, in areas of high levels of housing demand with 75,000+ new population planned. 

With the Metro the two ConnectedCities could sustainably house up to 135,000 more people within walking distance of stations - accommodating all Wiltshire's housing targets up to 2040.