Transport Minister Baroness Kramer visited Stoke Gifford today to officially open a £13 million new station car park that will increase capacity and convenience for thousands of passengers. The multi-storey car park at Bristol Parkway will provide an extra 710 parking spaces, in addition to the existing 1,100, to cater for increasing numbers of passengers using the station. Before the
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Network Rail is inviting local residents to a drop-in public consultation event that will explain proposals to reconstruct a local railway bridge as part of the Great Western Main Line electrification project. The work relates to Pearsons Brick Yard Bridge, which provides access from Harry Stoke Lane to industrial buildings near Hunts Ground Road and also carries regional walking and
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is staging a public consultation on plans to widen a stretch of Gipsy Patch Lane, on the westbound approach to the A38 Gloucester Road, adjacent to the Rolls-Royce works. The proposed scheme will extend the dedicated westbound left-turn lane on Gipsy Patch Lane by approximately 120m. It also includes the widening of existing footways for use as shared
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Rail Minister Stephen Hammond today visited Bristol Parkway Station to see first-hand the £13 million car park improvement works. One of the largest Station Commercial Projects Facility Fund projects that a train operator is managing, the work will see an additional 710 parking spaces created at this thriving station. Presently the car park can accommodate 1,100 vehicles and is regularly
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Plans for a major new single carriageway road to relieve congestion, improve public transport links and support business and housing growth in the North Fringe of Bristol have been approved by councillors. Members of the South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Committee granted planning permission for the Stoke Gifford Transport Link (known locally as the Stoke Gifford By-Pass) at their
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First Great Western (FGW) has announced that construction of a new three-storey car park at Parkway Station will commence on Saturday 13th July and continue until March 2014. The project, which will provide an additional 710 parking bays at the station, was originally due to be completed by March 2013. Work was scheduled to start last September, but, despite builders’
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A planning application to build a new by-pass for Stoke Gifford has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council. The application comes less than two weeks after the council agreed to buy up land along the route in an effort to speed up its construction. The officially-named Stoke Gifford Transport Link (SGTL) – known locally as ‘the by-pass’ – will be
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Millions of pounds of transport investment in South Gloucestershire have been given the green light today, including money for two schemes in the Stoke Gifford area. Councillors on South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Policy and Resources Committee have given the green light to buy up the remaining land not already under council ownership along the route of the flagship £102m North
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A new multi-operator bus ticket valid across the whole of the Bristol area could benefit passengers on routes in Stoke Gifford and Bradley Stoke that are served by buses from both First and Wessex. The BristolRider ticket, offering unlimited travel for one day throughout Bristol and parts of South Gloucestershire (within Wessex’s zones A and B, and First Bristol’s zones
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Gipsy Patch Lane will be closed overnight tonight (Monday/Tuesday 18th/19th February) to allow network Rail to undertake a detailed examination of the railway bridge. The road will be closed from 10pm tonight (Monday 18th) until 6am tomorrow morning. The alternative route for vehicles is A38 Gloucester Road North, A4174 Link Road, A4174 Station Road, Great Stoke Way, Brierley Furlong, Hatchet
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