Buses won't be able to use M2 Kirkham Bridge!

The latest bulletin of the Beecroft Cheltenham Civic Trust states that heavy vehicles including buses will not be able to use the bridge over the M2 between Murray Farm Road and Kirkham Street during the work to widen the spans. Therefore school children living west of the bridge will not be able to travel to their schools by bus! Also presumably fire engines from Beecroft will not be able to attack fires west of the bridge.
Transurban claim the work on widening the spans of the bridge will take 22 months to complete, a strange coincidence because this is also the proposed duration of the whole M2 widening project. Pressure needs to be applied to the project team to actively plan this work as a fast-track activity which will assist the M2 widening project as well as minimising disruption for local residents and businesses.