Wiltshire council objected to the big nasty lorries in their back yard, and Bath could not provide a suitable alternative to their 18 ton weight limit,a local MP asked the reasons why for the ban and Bath did not provide an answer, Bath council told the local paper that trucks were intimidating to vulnerable road users,a normal response to people who do not live in the real world, if they are that vulnerable then they should not be on the road.
There is still a weight limit as such, but that route does not affect the heavies, the LGV route is the Lower Bristol road,to Bristol, or the A4 for the M4 junction.
What do you mean there’s still a weight limit as such ? 
So has the ban been dropped?
Trucks should stop going in altogether, soon change their tone
Without trucks you get nothing!
The ban was never introduced, it was stopped before it ever got started!!!
As has been said this was pure Nimbyism, only in this particular instance a Wiltshire MP didn’t want traffic from the proposed Bath ban on his constituents’ roads.
If you know where the fire station is in Bath, that is the bridge where they wanted to have the ban, there is still a 7.5 ton limit by Walcot street, heading past Milsom street area.
The Wiltshire MP is an ex Doctor from the Royal Navy, called Andrew Murrison.
toby1234abc:
If you know where the fire station is in Bath, that is the bridge where they wanted to have the ban, there is still a 7.5 ton limit by Walcot street, heading past Milsom street area.
The Wiltshire MP is an ex Doctor from the Royal Navy, called Andrew Murrison.
Where’s Walcot Street ?
bald bloke:
toby1234abc:
If you know where the fire station is in Bath, that is the bridge where they wanted to have the ban, there is still a 7.5 ton limit by Walcot street, heading past Milsom street area.
The Wiltshire MP is an ex Doctor from the Royal Navy, called Andrew Murrison.Where’s Walcot Street ?
From memory, Walcot street is the one that goes straight on at the traffic lights, where you turn left to go past the fire station - if that makes sense?
Walcot goes up the slope to the mini roundabout, straight over and across the top of Milsom Street and into Queens Square…
I think!! 
Piston broke:
bald bloke:
toby1234abc:
If you know where the fire station is in Bath, that is the bridge where they wanted to have the ban, there is still a 7.5 ton limit by Walcot street, heading past Milsom street area.
The Wiltshire MP is an ex Doctor from the Royal Navy, called Andrew Murrison.Where’s Walcot Street ?
From memory, Walcot street is the one that goes straight on at the traffic lights, where you turn left to go past the fire station - if that makes sense?
Walcot goes up the slope to the mini roundabout, straight over and across the top of Milsom Street and into Queens Square…
I think!!
Coming over the bridge, you can turn left or right into London Road. Going left will take upto the mini roundabout which bearing left staying on London Road will lead onto Walcott Street. Bearing right you will continue on the A4 (The Paragon).
If you were brave it did used to be possible to turn off right on your way in down the London road and pick your way round the back streets without passing through any weight limit signs. Used to do it fairly often in an 18 tonner and did it a few times in an artic. Would only take one badly parked car for it to turn into a total nightmare, happened once in the artic and I stopped using it after that.
One street has a 7.5t sign but the next one doesn’t but leads to the same road if I remember rightly.
That multi million pounder of the Batheaston bypass solved nothing, they only had to keep going to make a loop so the trucks could bypass the city, problem solved.
Every village and town in France has a bypass or ring road, a ,long time ago, two trucks failed to give way and crashed, they were gas or fuel tankers, it was a case of red mist and they gunned towards each other in anger.