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Title: New Roads For Buses Only Post by: Lee on August 25, 2007, 14:34:49 Frustrated motorists who curse being barred from bus lanes could soon have a new bugbear to deal with - entire roads reserved just for buses (link below.)
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=18200430&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922 South Gloucestershire council is planning to build one such bus-only road to service a new estate of 1,250 homes at Stoke Gifford (near Bristol Parkway.) Electronically controlled gates and bollards will stop car drivers getting on to the 900m stretch of road , which is designed to reduce traffic on the already congested Avon ring road when people start moving to the huge housing development. The new road will run from the roundabout on the south side of the Ministry of Defence headquarters at Abbey Wood (near Filton Abbey Wood station) to the access road for the University of the West of England. House-building firm Redrow snapped up the 77-acre site from computing outfit Hewlett Packard last year for a reported ^55 million when the company finally ruled out its own expansion plans for the site. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |