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« Reply #735 on: November 24, 2018, 19:34:21 »

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/bristol-s-buses-are-chaos-here-are-four-fixes-won-t-break-bank-4364
Extra doors, kerb build-outs, contactless payment, better mapping, more frequent services running direct lines with changes, and regulation to increase passenger numbers, according to this. But also:
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« Reply #736 on: November 27, 2018, 16:29:45 »

So Metrobus have tweeted out an image of a fairly detailed route map for the M1.
Not sure if this is new or not, but it is more detailed than anything I have seen anyway, and I can't help feel even more annoyed considering how close to Temple Meads and Parkway it comes, but is just a bit too far away from either to be useful for them!
https://twitter.com/metrobusBristol/status/1065978379005059072
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« Reply #737 on: November 27, 2018, 21:17:24 »

The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46359339

appears to be mixing up its bridges. The picture is of the Stoke Gifford bridge at Bristol Parkway, whilst the article refers to to The Little Stoke bridge in Gypsy Patch Lane.
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« Reply #738 on: November 27, 2018, 21:24:06 »

So Metrobus have tweeted out an image of a fairly detailed route map for the M1.
Not sure if this is new or not, but it is more detailed than anything I have seen anyway, and I can't help feel even more annoyed considering how close to Temple Meads and Parkway it comes, but is just a bit too far away from either to be useful for them!
https://twitter.com/metrobusBristol/status/1065978379005059072

Good old Greater Bristol Non-Integrated Transport Solutions!
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« Reply #739 on: November 27, 2018, 21:26:58 »

The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46359339

appears to be mixing up its bridges. The picture is of the Stoke Gifford bridge at Bristol Parkway, whilst the article refers to to The Little Stoke bridge in Gypsy Patch Lane.

Bless 'em. Not the first to make that mistake; perhaps they've fallen behind when reading this forum: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=17049.msg252155#msg252155
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« Reply #740 on: November 28, 2018, 09:59:40 »

The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46359339

appears to be mixing up its bridges. The picture is of the Stoke Gifford bridge at Bristol Parkway, whilst the article refers to to The Little Stoke bridge in Gypsy Patch Lane.

Bless 'em. Not the first to make that mistake; perhaps they've fallen behind when reading this forum: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=17049.msg252155#msg252155
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« Reply #741 on: November 28, 2018, 14:02:23 »

More roadworks to look forward to...

Seven new routes planned for Bristol's Metrobus project

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46370321?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/localnews/2654675-Bristol/0&link_location=live-reporting-story

"It is part of an 18-year transport strategy run by councils across the greater Bristol area"

No mention of rail improvements & enhancements within this strategy, aside from the part about a route from Bristol Parkway to The Mall, which I thought was already being sorted anyway with the upcoming Gypsy Patch Lane works...

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« Reply #742 on: November 28, 2018, 15:56:20 »


No mention of rail improvements & enhancements within this strategy, aside from the part about a route from Bristol Parkway to The Mall, which I thought was already being sorted anyway with the upcoming Gypsy Patch Lane works...


Funny lot, journalists; the Evening Bristol got a lot more out of it: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=20426.msg252896#msg252896

Can't wait to see how different this draft of the JLTP is from the JTS published in 2016...
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« Reply #743 on: November 28, 2018, 19:21:24 »

As an aside, I found a couple of pie charts in the Bristol Transport Strategy document that summarised Bristol's transport problem rather neatly: One showed the number of vehicles using the A38, and the other showed the number of people. I have put the figures in a table, which doesn't quite do it justice; if you prefer you can look at the original here

Mode     Vehicles (%)People (%)
Car6138
Bus432
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Cycle205

Anyone who has stood by Zetland Road Junction (still named after the long lamented tram junction!) during the rush hour will be unsurprised to learn that 20% of traffic is bicycles, but it hadn't occurred to me that with their single occupancy they would only carry 5% of the people. Buses, on the other hand, appear to be extraordinarily efficient - although if you counted the space each mode took, you'd get another picture again!
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« Reply #744 on: November 28, 2018, 19:32:49 »

As an aside, I found a couple of pie charts in the Bristol Transport Strategy document that summarised Bristol's transport problem rather neatly:

Cheers for that - There was me thinking the problem was no-one knowing their backside from their elbow!
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« Reply #745 on: November 28, 2018, 22:29:23 »

Went to a WECA» (West of England Combined Authority - about) meeting today to raise an issue on Metrobus ticketing which I have aired on this thread (more on this in a day or so).

However I was despaired to hear that both the Portishead and Henbury projects are dying ducks in the water.

It transpired, according to my informant, that the promoting body of MetroWest Phase 1 decided to split the project into MetroWest Phase 1A and MetroWest Phase 1B and Chris Grayling has told them, the promoters, its no Phase 1A, its no Phase 1B, its Phase 1 or nothing and that also includes the hoped for new station at Charfield.
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« Reply #746 on: November 30, 2018, 07:24:59 »

Surprised that no-one has come forward to confirm or deny this rumour.
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« Reply #747 on: November 30, 2018, 08:29:43 »

Surprised that no-one has come forward to confirm or deny this rumour.

Let's hope it is just a rumour after all this time
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« Reply #748 on: November 30, 2018, 13:19:29 »

Took my first and probably only trip on the Justabus route from Long Ashton park and ride to the centre. Now, I knew there was not a great deal of guided busway and that it was only there to secure the government funding. What I found was that there was even less of it that I ever imagined and most, if not all, of it was utterly unnecessary. To describe it as a token gesture would be about as far as you could claim. It really looks like an act of low cunning used to secure money by false pretences for a road building scheme and must have damaged our reputation with central government.
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« Reply #749 on: November 30, 2018, 13:37:52 »

That's assuming that central government didn't introduce the requirement as a sop in order to cover for road building schemes under other names.
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