Bristol-Bath Railway Path

[burtthebike]

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".

There is also a petition on the local council website
http://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/ with over 6598 signatures on it currently.

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.

 

[Garry from Cork]

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.

 

[al Mossah]

On 6 Feb, 19:20, "burtthebike" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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".
>
> There is also a petition on the local council websitehttp://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/with over 6598 signatures on it currently.
>
> 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.

Peter.

 

[burtthebike]

"al Mossah" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 6 Feb, 19:20, "burtthebike" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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!

 

[Don Whybrow]

al Mossah wrote:
>
> 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


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