A ‘new’ bus service that comes into operation from Monday 2nd September will restore a direct link from stops in south Bradley Stoke to Bristol Parkway, with onward connections from there to Southmead Hospital. The Stagecoach 71 service, renumbered from the present 3X, will travel along Bradley Stoke Way on its route from the Aztec West Business Park to the railway station.
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Bradley Stoke will have a differently numbered ‘all stops’ bus service from Sunday 1st September when the 73 service disappears from the town and is replaced by an extended version of the current 74 service. Aside from the number change, there are only minor changes to the route and timetable for journeys between Bradley Stoke and the city centre. However, south of the centre…
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Drivers using the M5 motorway near Bradley Stoke are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge refurbishment works enter their final phase from today, Friday 26th April 2024. The closures will extend from J17 (Cribbs Causeway) to J14 (Falfield) and will therefore affect access to and from the motorway at J16 (Almondsbury / Aztec West).
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Bradley Stoke’s 73 bus service will see its route altered for the third time in just over two years when a new timetable comes into effect on Sunday 7th April. At the northern end of the route, buses will no longer turn around at the Aztec West Business Park (off-peak only) or Pear Tree Road Roundabout but will instead make a clockwise one-way loop…
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South Glos Council has published further details of plans to create a near-continuous, two-way segregated cycle track along the full length of Bradley Stoke Way. The route is part of a wider £31.8m scheme to improve walking, cycling and bus travel between Thornbury and south Bradley Stoke. Residents are encouraged to have their say on the proposals by 18th December.
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Drivers using the M5 near Bradley Stoke are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge refurbishment works enter their next phase from Monday 2nd October 2023. A week of overnight full closures of the M5, between junctions 14 and 17, is planned to allow the installation of a contraflow system.
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Bus passengers in Bradley Stoke will see a number of timetable and route changes coming into effect from Sunday 3rd September 2023. The changes affect First Bus services 73, M1 MetroBus and T1. The route of the 73 service is being extended while operating frequencies on the M1 MetroBus service are being increased. There are also minor changes to the service T1 timetable.
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Students from Bradley Stoke, Stoke Gifford and Patchway who attend Winterbourne Academy have been left stranded after it was announced that the bus service they use to get to and from school has been scrapped. South Gloucestershire Council has told the school that it is “very unlikely” that the 963 bus service will continue as it can no longer afford to subsidise it.
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Timetables published this week confirm that the 73 bus service will be extended to terminate at the Approach Road stop in the Aztec West Business Park from Sunday 3rd September. However, on weekdays fewer than a third of journeys will go as far as Aztec West, with these being at off-peak times only (arriving between 10:23 and 14:57). There are also changes to the stops used by the service near Temple Meads Station.
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Motorists are being warned to expect months of contraflow on the M5 motorway near Bradley Stoke in connection with bridge repair works being carried out by National Highways. The work is planned to commence with a month of overnight road closures from Monday 31st July 2023. Contraflow traffic management will be introduced from October 2023 and last until “summer 2024”.
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