Transport

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Temple Quarter chair Lyn Garner – can regeneration be inclusive?

The Temple Quarter redevelopment will transform a huge area of inner-city Bristol. What will it do for the city's big issues – housing, transport, jobs and education – and who will benefit?

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Area in Focus

A bright yellow bus parked on the street with its door open. A building with scaffolding is in the background

When a lifeline bus route was axed in Avonmouth, the local community stepped in

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Samira Musse on community power, how to consult with people, and giving kids confidence lessons

Alex Turner Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media George Colwey
Alex Turner, Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media and George Colwey

Reports

Traffic jams around East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood fuel anger, as council calls for patience

A campaign to halt the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood has sprung up before the trial scheme is fully in place. Can the attempt to reduce traffic through St George, Redfield and Barton Hill survive this bump in the road?

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
Urban street scene showing a cyclist in the foreground and a lineup of parked cars on either side, with commercial buildings.

Features

‘Liveable neighbourhoods’ have caused uproar in east Bristol. How will they fare south of the river?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
computer generated scene of the centre of Bristol with a new bike lane. Variuos people are using lots of forms of transport or walking.

Reports

New radical plans tabled to remove cars from Bristol city centre

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Podcasts

A view down a residential street with a green area on the left and houses on the right.

Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

The council will soon launch a formal consultation on the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood, before the trial traffic-restriction scheme comes in early next year.

Matty Edwards George Colwey
Matty Edwards and George Colwey

Reports

Metro Mayor vetoes Bristol Underground plans at key vote as progress remains uncertain

The future for the “Future4West” scheme remains uncertain after region’s political leaders failed to come to an agreement.

John Wimperis

Reports

Image of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and his West of Englad counterpart Dan Norris.

West of England mayor holds talks with Andy Burnham about bus franchising after local campaign

Metro Mayor Dan Norris has faced months of calls to formally explore taking Bristol's struggling bus services back into public control.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Analysis: It’s time for politicians to come together on mass transit

A leaked report has concluded that underground sections are needed and achievable in Bristol’s future mass transit system. As we move to the next stage in the process, we need our politicians to work together.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Future of Cities

Image of a modern tram travelling along a narrow street in Bordeaux (credit: Per Karlsson / Alamy)

Trams, or an underground? As Bristol weighs its public transport options, can it learn from across the Channel?

Bristol is notorious for its congestion and poor public transport, and has been hit by a worsening bus crisis. As it looks to a new mass transit system to solve its problems, cities such as Rennes and Bordeaux can offer valuable lessons.

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Reports

Bristol won’t bring in parking levy to fund transport as council forced to publish report

Mayor Marvin Rees has again hit out at sceptics of plans for a Bristol underground, and said smaller schemes won't do enough to give us the public transport we need.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter) and Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)
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