A smarter way to travel Overview
Bus passengers - Building on Success 68,000 66,000 64,000 Locally 7% growth 62,000 2015/16 60,000 Actual 58,000 Target Nationally bus passengers 56,000 fell by 0.6% in 2015/16 54,000 whilst in the 52,000 Metropolitan areas they 50,000 fell by 1.5%. 48,000 2012/13 data distorted by new ticket machines not recording all passengers
MetroBus Offer Attractive journey times, frequencies & improved reliability. • Capacity for peak passenger demand & future growth. • High quality interchange facilities e.g. rail, car parking, bus stops, footpath • links, cycle storage etc. Smart and integrated ticketing – including mobile apps. • Connectivity to key destinations & high levels of accessibility • Opportunity for feeder bus services to also benefit from segregated • routes. Where possible, good parallel walking and cycling facilities. •
MetroBus investment
Information and Ticketing Point Bus Stop Flag – visual marker RTI Screen Interactive Screen – TravelWest & Ticketing Portal Download ticket products to smartcard Smartcard ‘lite’ tickets
Other Benefits 94 new bus stops • 282 new cycle stands • Over 7km of new cycle routes (4.5 SBL, 2.5km along guided busway) • Over 6km of new road space (4.5 km SBL; 1.6 km SGTL) • New Baldwin Street link across underground River Frome in City Centre • 3 new bridges across the railway - 1 SBL; 1 SGTL 1 AVTM ) • 8 new, 2 replaced, 1 refurbished road bridges across roads and streams 2 SBL, 1 NFHSGTL, 1 • AVTM, 3 Ashton Fields, 1 city centre) Environmental : SBL 1 hectare (3.7 acres) of new woodland, • Hartcliffe Way - A total of 236 new trees and a minimum of 370m of new hedgerow • 8 new ponds (SBL); 3.5 hectare of new species rich grassland (nearly 5 AG football pitches) • mammal underpasses will be provided at six locations along the South Bristol Link route. This • includes an underpass linking the two areas of Highridge Common. Land needed at Highridge Common was replaced with twice the amount used. • There will be five ledges under the bridge crossings at Colliter’s Brook and Longmoor Brook • too. 10 bat boxes • 30 bird nesting boxes •
South Bristol Link
Hareclive Road
Queens Road
Highridge Green
Highridge Common
A370 Roundabout Works well progressed • Anticipate opening in • December/January On Budget and Programme • Santa Cycle ride 18 th • December
AVTM Guided busway
Festival Way and Ashton Avenue Bridge
Ashton Avenue (Swing) Bridge
Guided busway: Create Centre to Cumberland Road
Improved public spaces, Redcliff Hill Works progressing well • Anticipated opening Summer • 2017 Delay and overspend due to • Network Rail changes to skew bridge requirements
NFHP M32 bridge and slip roads
Stoke Gifford Transport Link
Bradley Stoke Way
Bradley Stoke Way Major contracts underway, • Hartcliffe Way to start Jan 17 Anticipated opening date • Autumn 17 Largest and most complicated • scheme Delays and overspends • detailed in JTEC report
Bristol city centre works
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