Bridgwater Town Council Transport Forum has been endeavoring to promote better linkages between Bridgwater Railway Station and Bridgwater Bus Station. Today a major step forward took place when an important meeting was held on site which involved Cllr Mike Rigby Somerset Council Cabinet Member for Transport and Digital; Luke Farley GWR Integrated Transport Lead;  Local Transport campaigner and former Labour Councilor Glen Burrows; Cllr Mick Lerry Mayor of Bridgwater and Cllr Tim Mander Property Portfolio Holder. The main issue revolved around the design fault that means that despite a well laid our car park together with Bus Stop the ability to manoeuvre busses is very limited. However having had the opportunity to see the issues Cllr Rigby felt that with fairly minor alterations the problem could be overcome and he confirmed that integration of train and bus transport in Bridgwater was now one of Somerset Council’s top priorities.

Luke Farley from GWR who are responsible for the station and car park undertook to go away and progress works that were agreed that needed to be undertaken.

Cllr Tim Mander (Westover Labour) said “the meeting that took sometime to organize, and many thanks to Glen Burrows for her hard work in getting the parties together, actually produced a very positive outcome. There does really seem to be light at the end of the tunnel and we should before too long look at achieving a situation where you can hop off a train straight onto a bus”.