The West of England Partnership have a cunning plan, to completely ruin the most popular leisure facility in the region, if not the country (2.4 million trips/year) by running guided buses down it. The Bristol Bath path is currently not wide enough on occasions for the number of people cycling and walking along it, so how they will fit a double guided bus lane down it is beyond me and every other person who's looked at the plans. It will do nothing about congestion either.
The local paper is running a poll on this proposal, currently 90% against, at http://www.epost.co.uk/ Click on the "interact" button on the left and then "vote" then "Bristol cycle path".
If you voted for the Connect 2 bid, then please vote against this crass, idiotic idea which will ruin the first path Sustrans created. If this happens, no path in the country is safe.
A similar nutty plan to run a bus down an old railway line which has been a walk/cycle path in Cork was stopped by public outrage a few short years ago.
The West of England Partnership have a cunning plan, to completely ruin the most popular leisure facility in the region, if not the country (2.4 million trips/year) by running guided buses down it. The Bristol Bath path is currently not wide enough on occasions for the number of people cycling and walking along it, so how they will fit a double guided bus lane down it is beyond me and every other person who's looked at the plans. It will do nothing about congestion either.
The local paper is running a poll on this proposal, currently 90% against, athttp://www.epost.co.uk/ Click on the "interact" button on the left and then "vote" then "Bristol cycle path".
If you voted for the Connect 2 bid, then please vote against this crass, idiotic idea which will ruin the first path Sustrans created. If this happens, no path in the country is safe.
I've a great idea. There are several flat tarmacked lanes already in Bristol. They are called "roads". Convert some of them to take the guided buses. Of course, that might mean that motorists have their journeys delayed, but that would perhaps encourage them to abandon their cars and take to the bus.
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On 6 Feb, 19:20, "burtthebike" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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I've a great idea. There are several flat tarmacked lanes already in Bristol. They are called "roads". Convert some of them to take the guided buses. Of course, that might mean that motorists have their journeys delayed, but that would perhaps encourage them to abandon their cars and take to the bus.
Great idea Peter, but just too radical for the planners of the UK!
I've a great idea. There are several flat tarmacked lanes already in Bristol. They are called "roads". Convert some of them to take the guided buses. Of course, that might mean that motorists have their journeys delayed, but that would perhaps encourage them to abandon their cars and take to the bus.
Two words I would not have expected to see in the same sentence. Flat & Bristol
