In addition, a line would have been drawn under potentially much higher costs by preventing the bail-outs from becoming a permanent flow of transfers.

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He added that the authority would analyse data from the scheme and was committed to working with KCC to tackle the city's traffic problems, lower pollution, ease flow, and find a permanent solution at Westgate Towers.

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But this flow was never ordained to be permanent.

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