South Gloucestershire Council has announced that it has scrapped plans for a bus priority scheme on the A38 Aztec West roundabout, saying that the work is “no longer viable” after First Group made changes to the route of its 73 bus service. The earlier proposals have now been abandoned in favour of a northbound bus lane on the A38 Gloucester
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that a £168 million rapid transport scheme that will link Bradley Stoke and Bristol city centre has been agreed “in principle” by the government. Information about the scheme, known officially as the North Fringe to Hengrove Package, is hard to come by, but SGC says: This is a major project to provide a rapid
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Bradley Stoke bus users are being warned of temporary timetable changes on the No. 73 route that will see buses arriving a few minutes earlier than usual at stops in the town. First Group has announced that many journeys on the No. 73 route heading into Bristol will depart Cribbs Causeway up to five minutes earlier than normal from today
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A public exhibition is being held this week to display the latest information about plans to allow vehicles to use the hard shoulder on motorways in the Bradley Stoke area. Work on the M4/M5 Managed Motorway scheme, announced by Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Transport, earlier this year, is due to begin in Spring 2010 and be fully operational
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Inter-city coach services between Cardiff and London have become more accessible for Bradley Stoke residents with the introduction of a stop at the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England (UWE). Megabus.com, owned by the Stagecoach Group, offers nine journeys per day to London and eight to Cardiff from the new stop, which is located at the
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is inviting public comment on a proposed scheme to add a bus lane to the southbound carriageway of Great Stoke Way, near the Sainsbury’s superstore. The proposed work would be carried out as part of the Greater Bristol Bus Network project, a £70 million scheme to improve bus services on ten key routes throughout the region.
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Bus services have been partially restored to Bradley Stoke’s town centre this week, after a break of over twelve months during building works. Services were suspended from April 2008, when construction of a new car park got underway, despite earlier plans to provide a temporary bus stop within the centre as building work progressed. Bus passengers using the centre have
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Familiar green bus shelters on the 73 bus route through Bradley Stoke are being replaced with shiny silver ones funded by the Greater Bristol Bus Network (GBBN). The old green shelters, owned and maintained by Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), are beginning to show their age and the Council has sruggled to keep them free of graffiti. Lib Dem Councillor Jon
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Work aimed at reducing the number of accidents at a Bradley Stoke mini-roundabout has begun this week. The roundabout at the junction of Brook Way and Braydon Avenue has seen four personal injury accidents within the space of three years (2005 – 2007), according to South Gloucestershire Council. The Council says it is implementing the following changes at the junction:
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First Group has announced changes to the 73 bus service which will see journey times between Bradley Stoke and the centre of Bristol reduced but leave the Aztec West Business Park isolated from the public transport network. The changes, which come into effect on Sunday 1st February, will see, for example, the existing 08:04 service (now retimed to 08:01) from
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