Commuters who travel between Bradley Stoke and destinations in East Bristol have welcomed an astonishing council U-turn on a hugely unpopular ‘no left-turn’ restriction at the Hambrook lights, which they claimed was adding upwards of ten minutes to their journey times. The restriction, which applied to traffic approaching the lights on the B4058 Bristol Road from Winterbourne, had been introduced
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The long-awaited Stoke Gifford By-Pass, officially known as the Stoke Gifford Transport Link (SGTL), was opened to general traffic earlier today (Monday 18th December). It provides a much more direct link between Bradley Stoke and Junction 1 of the M32 at Hambrook, avoiding the need to travel through the main part of Stoke Gifford or along the current alternative route via
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There’s no official date for the start of services, so Journal editor Stephen Horton is once again left to speculate… As I write this, more than 800 days after MetroBus construction work first started in Bradley Stoke, we seem to have finally arrived at the point when all the new sections of bus lane are complete and ready for service.
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Work on this non-MetroBus project commenced in May 2016 and was estimated to last 12 to 18 months. In response to an enquiry from the Journal asking if it is now complete, an SGC spokesperson said: “All of the major construction work relating to the original programme has been substantially completed within the £4.5m budget and on time.” “A small
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An update compiled by the Journal with the assistance of the West of England Councils’ MetroBus team. Bradley Stoke Way All new bus lanes are complete and traffic management has been removed. Landscaping continues, along with remedial work by Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd to fix minor defects. All work near Great Stoke Roundabout is complete, except for the connection of electrical
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South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) highways department has been accused of responding inadequately to reports of recurring issues with the new traffic lights at the Aztec West Roundabout in the days before a major fault caused gridlock throughout Bradley Stoke during the morning rush hour on Monday 16th October. The latest incident follows two earlier ones associated with the same system
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An update compiled by the Journal with the assistance of the West of England Councils’ MetroBus team. South of Patchway Brook The new northbound bus lane was fully opened during the second week of October, following the completion of the final piece of work to install a pollution control chamber in the verge, close to Primrose Bridge. Traffic cones remain along
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Following on from the two major gridlock incidents in August and September, a number of Journal readers have asked why vehicles leaving the Aztec West Business Park and heading north on the slip road to the A38 are held by red signals at the new pedestrian crossing, when nobody is crossing and there is no traffic leaving the roundabout on the northbound
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By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. South of Patchway Brook Traffic management has now been removed, with the exception of one final section near Primrose Bridge, which has been left in place so that a pollution control chamber can be installed. We await the design solution to install this equipment as the underground utilities that are there
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There’s no official date, so Journal editor Stephen Horton is left to speculate… By the time you read this, we will be into the third year of MetroBus roadworks in Bradley Stoke! When Alun Griffiths started their work in earnest on Monday 2nd September 2015, closing the Woodlands Lane junction for “an estimated 18 weeks”, we were told they planned
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