Bus route and timetable changes scheduled for mid-September look set to leave a large part of South Bradley Stoke without a direct daytime service to Bristol city centre. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has confirmed rumours that the 71 and 72 bus services operated by Wessex Connect are to be withdrawn from 18th September. The hourly 71 service, which links North
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South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Cabinet has approved the submission to the Department for Transport (DfT) of a bid for £51 million of government funding towards a bus rapid transit scheme that would link link Cribbs Causeway with Bristol city centre via Bradley Stoke. The £102 million scheme, known as the North Fringe to Hengrove Package, promises to provide a “fast,
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Work to install a new raised table pedestrian crossing on Brook Way, close to the mini-roundabout at the junction with Wheatfield Drive, is set to commence on Monday (20th June). The work to install a 75mm high raised table across the full width of the road and widen the island and footway approaches to the crossing could last until Friday
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The driver of a bus heading for Bradley Stoke stopped his vehicle at Parkway Station and refused to continue his journey, according to a report in the Bristol Evening Post. Ten passengers on the last number 73 bus from Bristol City Centre to Patchway (via Bradley Stoke) on Friday night were told to get off the bus and find their
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Parents whose children attend Holy Trinity Primary School in Bradley Stoke are celebrating after South Gloucestershire Councillors on the Southern Brooks Area Forum agreed to support a proposal for a new raised crossing on Pear Tree Road. The proposal to install a raised table at the existing zebra crossing near the school, at an estimated cost of £26,000, won through
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A new northbound bus lane on the A38 Gloucester Road between Patchway and Aztec West has entered service following months of construction and associated traffic disruption. Work on the Greater Bristol Bus Network (GBBN) funded scheme started in April 2010 and was originally due to finish by October but “engineering issues” and “adverse weather conditions” saw its completion slip to
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BBC Bristol reports that South Gloucestershire Council has confirmed that it will cease funding for speed cameras in the district from April. The Council currently contributes £144,842 funding to the West of England Road Safety Partnership, which in turn funds Safecam, the body that operates road safety cameras on its behalf. A Council spokesman is quoted as saying: “The council
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A proposed rapid transit scheme that could see a high-speed bus service linking Bradley Stoke with Bristol city centre and Cribbs Causeway has made it through to the final stage of a competitive process to secure Government funding. The North Fringe to Hengrove Package (NFtHP), a bus rapid transit scheme linking north and south Bristol, which had previously been assigned
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The Highways Agency has announced that the M5 motorway will be closed tonight (Saturday 5th February 2011) in both directions between junctions 17 (Cribbs Causeway) and 18 (Avonmouth). The closure is necessary to allow contractors to reinstate the Lawrence Weston pedestrian and cyclist bridge, which was demolished on Christmas Day 2009. The closure of the notorway is scheduled to last
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