The crazy thing is this work has absolutely nothing to do with improving the railway whatsoever. The only saving grace is this huge overrun occurred during lockdown. Scant consolation if you rely on trains in the area to get to work of course.
Absolutely right. There was a perfectly good railway running over an absolutely adequate bridge before all this began. The Western Super Mayor (? Bignosemac) decided that the best way to improve public transport was to build a
much wider road MetroBust route following the railway line between Parkway and Filton Airfield, thence to Cribbs Causeway, and it seems to have gone downhill since. When it finally opens to traffic, cars will be able to get stuck at the traffic light junction with the A38, a few hundred metres further on, much more quickly than they could before.