Posted in Bendy bus, Bristol City Council, tagged Bendy Bus, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bus Rapid Transit, Department for Transport on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Mike Ribbeck and Sam Rkaina
Bosses and company leaders in Bristol have given a near unanimous thumbs down to plans to tax businesses to help pay for its controversial £200 million bendy-bus scheme.
As reported in yesterday’s Evening Post the city council is looking at charging firms for providing staff with parking spaces to help fill a £42 million hole in the budget for its Rapid Transit System.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Transport, tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, Department for Transport, Public Transport, Sustainable on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sam Rkaina, Local Government Reporter / s.rkaina@bepp.co.uk
A FUNDING bid for £25 million of changes to Greater Bristol’s transport network has been shortlisted by the government.
The four local authorities have submitted the bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, which aims to make transport more environmentally friendly.
Posted in Bendy bus, Bristol City Council, tagged Bendy Bus, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, Conservatives, Department for Transport, Evening Post, Hengrove to North Fringe, Liberal Democrats, M32, Marc Rath, Park and Ride, Politics, Tim Kent on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Marc Rath / m.rath@bepp.co.uk
AN access road could be created for an M32 park and ride – even though Bristol City Council does not know if it will ever get Government funding to build it.
The road will be created off the motorway between junctions 1 and 2 as part of the bendy bus route from Hengrove to Bristol northern fringe, if the Government awards funding to the project in December.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Conservatives, MPs, tagged Ashton Vale, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol North West, Bristol Politics, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, Charlotte Leslie, Conservatives, David Cameron, Department for Transport, Evening Post, Lets Get Moving, Prime Minister, Sam Rkaina, Temple Meads, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sam Rkaina, Local Government Reporter / s.rkaina@bepp.co.uk
If local people want an Integrated Transport Authority for Greater Bristol the government will help them, Mr Cameron said.
The Prime Minister stopped short of openly backing the Evening Post campaign for an ITA – one body that could help bring the area’s transport network into the 21st century – during his visit to the city on Thursday.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Transport, West of England Partnership, tagged Ashton Vale, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Brian Allinson, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Department for Transport, Hengrove to North Fringe, North Somerset Council, Politics, Public Transport, South Gloucestershire, Temple Meads, Tim Kent, West of England Partnership, Weston-super-Mare on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From the West of England Partnership
The four West of England Councils have joined forces to submit five bids to Government for funding for major transport improvements in the area.
The Cabinet and Executives of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire have agreed that the bids should be submitted by the deadline of 9 September this year.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Public Transport, West of England Partnership, Trains, tagged Bristol City Council, Department for Transport, Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Politics, West of England Partnership, Evening Post, Bristol Politics, Trains, Rail, Saltford, Dan Evans, Lets Get Moving, Campaign, Saltford station on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Dan Evans
A FLURRY of hands marked the passionate start of a campaign to reopen Saltford railway station.
More than 120 people gathered at Saltford Hall last nightTUE in near unanimous support for the drive by Saltford Environment Group.
The station, which opened in 1841, was closed in 1970 and the buildings alongside the A4 demolished.
Posted in Bendy bus, Bristol City Council, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Public Transport, Transport, tagged Ashton Vale, Bendy Bus, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Bristol Temple Meads, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, Department for Transport, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Temple Meads, Tess Green on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sam Rkaina, Local Government Reporter
BRISTOL City Council’s flagship Ashton Vale to Temple Meads bendy bus route will not actually stop at the station, it has emerged.
The £50 million scheme is one of three rapid transit routes the council is finalising, ahead of submitting funding bids to government in September.
The idea is that the three routes will make life much easier for people who want to get from one end of the city to another.
Posted in Bendy bus, Bristol City Council, Liberal Democrats, Public Transport, Rapid Transit, tagged Arnolfini, Ashton Vale, Bendy Bus, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, BRT, Department for Transport, Hengrove to North Fringe, Liberal Democrats, Rapid Transit, South Bristol Link, Temple Meads, Tim Kent, West of England Partnership on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Kent, executive member for transport on Bristol City Council, tells the Evening Post why, despite widespread criticism of the idea, he believes the bus rapid transit network – known as the bendy-bus route – is the best hope for the city to have a fast, efficient public transport system
Posted in Bendy bus, Bristol City Council, Public Transport, tagged Ashton Vale, Bendy Bus, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, Department for Transport, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Pip Sheard, Politics, Public Transport, South Bristol Link, Temple Meads on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Plans by the four Greater Bristol councils for Bristol’s rapid bendy-bus service have to be submitted to the Government by September.
But not everyone agrees that these so-called Bus Rapid Transport solutions are the right ones.
Here, transport campaigner PIP SHEARD argues that the bendy-bus routes will be neither rapid nor environmentally friendly.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Public Transport, Transport, tagged Ashton Gate, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Department for Transport, Greater Bristol Transport Alliance, Labour, Mark Bradshaw, Princes Wharf, Temple Meads, Tram, Ultra Light Rail, West of England Partnership on May 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Ian Onions, Political Editor
A SENIOR Bristol councillor has urged transport leaders to “think big” over a pioneering tram system which could ease the city’s traffic congestion.
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