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, Public Transport, Trains, West of England Partnership, tagged Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Campaign, Dan Evans, Department for Transport, Evening Post, Lets Get Moving, Politics, Rail, Saltford, Saltford station, Trains, West of England Partnership 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.
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