The Southmead Quietway is part of the £19m Cycling Ambition Fund to upgrade walking and cycling routes across the city. It links one of the busiest cycle routes in the city, Gloucester Road, through residential areas with high levels of cycle use, to the Southmead Hospital and north Bristol. It is identified as important ‘local link’ in […]
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Southmead Quietway – Cairns Road & Wellington Hill West Crossings
- Consultations
- Wednesday, 08 March 2017
South Glos Cycle Forum at UWE on 14th March 2017
- News
- Wednesday, 01 March 2017
Do please make an effort to attend the South Gloucestershire Cycle Forum if you can. It’s important that there is representation from a wide range of people and groups. Those choosing to cycle in South Glos can often feel like poor relations in one of the most congested and car dominated areas of the city. […]
A Modest Proposal #6; Eight to Eighty cycling on Gloucester Road
- Featured
- Thursday, 01 December 2016
Did you know that Gloucester Road was one of Bristol’s busiest cycle routes (Building on success – lessons from Gloucester Road)? What’s more, the number of people cycling has doubled in the last ten years whereas motor vehicle numbers have dropped by a fifth. These facts can be seen from Department for Transport Traffic Counts. […]
South Gloucestershire Draft Cycle Strategy – our response
- Consultations
- Friday, 22 January 2016
A lot of useful work has gone in to this draft strategy which follows on from the publication last year of the Bristol Cycle Strategy. As with all general plans and statements of intent they are likely to have only a slight influence on what actually happens, but they are absolutely necessary and important to […]
Southville Bridge abandoned – what’s next?
- Space for Cycling
- Tuesday, 17 November 2015
One of the more iconic cycling schemes in the city has been abandoned (here and here). The Southville Bridge was approved in 2014 and would have linked Camden Road and through to North Street in Bedminster to the Harbourside. It remains an important part of the Greater Bedminster neighbourhood cycling plan. Costs had escalated alarmingly so Mayor George Ferguson pulled […]