Major changes in Bradley Stoke’s bus services come into effect this Sunday (1st September). As previously reported on this website and in the August edition of the BSJ magazine, the existing 73 and 74 routes are being merged into a single 73 route that serves both the north and the south of the town. The frequency of the reconfigured 73
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Another round of changes to Bradley Stoke’s principal bus services will be made from 1st September, The Journal has learned. A source at South Gloucestershire Council has confirmed that the 74 service is to be withdrawn by First Bus from 1st September (less than a year after its introduction), with the route of the 73 service being adjusted from the
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Residents of Bradley Stoke will have the chance to have their say on local bus services and fare levels at a consultation event to be held at the Willow Brook Centre on Thursday 25th April. First Bus is staging the event as part of a major public consultation on bus fares in the Greater Bristol travel to work area. The
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Having recently nearly been run over along with my pregnant girlfriend, I am motivated to post here to see if others have also had a near miss. I was waiting with my girlfriend at the crossing at about 7:30pm (opposite side to Tesco), I pressed the button, and the usual amber red sequence happened. Genuinely, there were no cars in
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Is there any way people from Bradley Stoke can petition or anything about sorting out the roundabout by Hatchet Road and Gypsy Patch Lane? In the morning it will take me 30 minutes just to go straight across the roundabout. It gets jammed packed no one will let anyone out meaning lots of beeping and frustration. It needs to be
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A Bradley Stoke Councillor is to speak at a “peaceful protest rally” called to express dissatisfaction with the high price of bus fares in Bristol. Cllr Ben Walker (UKIP, Bradley Stoke North) will address the demo, which is due to take place outside the First Bus depot in Bristol city centre on Saturday (2nd February), between 12 noon an 2pm.
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A man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being pinned between two vehicles on Bradley Stoke Way at around 6:45pm last night (Tuesday 15th January). The man, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to Frenchay Hospital with what were described as “life changing injuries” following the incident on the Savages Wood Roundabout, near Bradley Stoke Leisure
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A new bus service is to be introduced from next Monday (14th January), linking the Willow Brook Centre with Bristol city centre, via the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England (UWE). Wessex Red’s number 13 service is being extended to serve Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke, Stoke Lodge and Filton, with a 20 minute frequency Monday through
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None of the roads in Bradley Stoke warrant being considered for repair, according to a report presented to last week’s meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum. Councillors on the Forum, which covers Bradley Stoke, Filton, Frenchay, Stoke Park, Patchway, Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne, were given £60,000 to allocate to highway maintenance schemes in the area and they were asked
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A group of residents in south Bradley Stoke say they are outraged that their request for a pedestrian crossing facility on a busy section of Brook Way has been deleted from a list of projects under consideration by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Members of the Lakeside Residents’ Association have been campaigning for three years for the Council to install a
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