A fleet of tipper trucks is making hundreds of journeys a week through Bradley Stoke to remove 20,000 cubic metres of earth from a housing development area just south of the town, despite councillors being told that all excavated material would be reused ‘on site’.
Continue reading
Local residents are invited to join a special event in Bradley Stoke to find out more about air pollution and to have a say in deciding how Bristol and the region should deal with transport and future growth. Are electric cars the answer? What will improve the traffic flow? How might alternatives work? What about better trains or even trams…? A UWE
Continue reading
What is with the traffic today around Bradley Stoke? Took me 15 mins to travel from the roundabout at the bottom of Braydon Avenue to the Jubilee Centre. First sign of congestion at the Aztec roundabout and the whole town grinds to a halt. Lou1969 Photo: Archive image of traffic congestion at the Aztec West Roundabout. Ed: Plenty of discussion about this on
Continue reading
Town councillors in Bradley Stoke say they fear the opening of the Stoke Gifford By-Pass (planned to be completed in 2017) will result in considerably more traffic using Bradley Stoke Way, despite assurances to the contrary by experts at South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). A presentation given to the town council’s Planning Committee in June saw SGC predicting a “marginal” increase
Continue reading
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
Continue reading
The installation of speed humps on the approach road to the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke has completely eliminated accidents, according to the centre’s manager Scott Lahive. Traffic calming measures were installed on the road twelve months ago, following a series of accidents that the centre said were attributable to speeding. Mr Lahive reported in a written response
Continue reading
Traffic in Bradley Stoke was gridlocked once again tonight, with a solid line of vehicles down the entire length of Bradley Stoke Way (southbound) and queues starting just before the Willow Brook Centre in the other direction. In contrast to previous days when the congestion resulted from road closures caused by flooding, tonight’s gridlock is understood to be a result
Continue reading
Hi Everyone, We are thinking about moving house soon to the Patchway area. Can anyone tell me what the traffic is normally like on the A38 between Patchway and Aztec West as the house we are looking at is along this stretch? I know it used to be bad in the evening but no idea about on a morning; not
Continue reading
Managers at the Willow Brook Centre say they are continuing to “refine and improve” traffic calming measures with the ongoing objective of reducing the speed of vehicles entering and leaving the site, thereby “improving the safety of customers who visit the Centre”. The shopping centre announced its intention to implement measures to “help drivers obey the speed limits” last September
Continue reading
An article in today’s Bristol Evening Post claims shoppers have been put off from using Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre following the installation of speed humps back in November last year. The humps on the approach road to the centre are said to be giving customers “too much of a jolt” and the obstacles are alleged to be causing traffic
Continue reading