Photo of Cllr Matthew Riddle planting a tree.

By-pass opens to general traffic but MetroBus won’t be using it until “summer”

Bradley Stoke motorists who need to access the A4174 Ring Road and M32 motorway were given an early Christmas present on Monday 18th December when the long-awaited Stoke Gifford By-Pass, officially known as the Stoke Gifford Transport Link (SGTL), was opened to general traffic. The news will also be warmly welcomed by residents of Stoke Gifford “village”, as it is

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Campaigners opposed to the construction of a bus lane along Hatchet Road, Stoke Gifford.

Hatchet Road bus lane plan scrapped amid concerns of overspend on ‘MetroBus 2’

A controversial plan to construct a new southbound bus lane on Hatchet Road in Stoke Gifford, as part of a scheme to extend the currently under-construction North Fringe to Hengrove Package (NFHP) MetroBus network, has been scrapped after South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative-led administration announced a “change of policy”. The move appears to have been driven by a fear that the

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Indicative artist’s impression of proposals on Hatchet Road (looking north).

New figures produced to justify Hatchet Road bus lane but cost pressures might just kill it off

The future of a controversial plan to construct a new southbound bus lane on Hatchet Road in Stoke Gifford looks set to be finally decided, without further public consultation, at a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Cabinet on Monday 4th December. The move is likely to anger local campaigners who collected more than 3,300 signatures on a petition that

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Campaigners opposed to the construction of a bus lane along Hatchet Road, Stoke Gifford.

Hatchet Road: Council concedes to petitioners’ demands for bus lane review

Campaigners opposed to the construction of a new bus lane on Hatchet Road in Stoke Gifford say they are “delighted” to have succeeded in convincing South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) that it should review its previous decision to press ahead with the scheme despite widespread opposition within the local community. The proposed new southbound bus lane on Hatchet Road will form

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