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December 2016
n NEWS Hartcliffe Way – it’ll be one way for 10 months • HGVs over 7.5 tonnes travelling inbound (towards the city centre) will be diverted from Hartcliffe roundabout via Hengrove Way, Whitchurch Lane, Whitchurch Road, Church Road and Bishopsworth Road to the A38 Bedminster Down Road. • HGVs outbound will be diverted from the Parson Street/Bedminster Road gyratory the opposite way to the above diversion. • Light vehicles and buses
travelling inbound will travel along Hartcliffe Way as normal. • Light vehicles outbound will be diverted along Novers Hill and Novers Lane. • A bus gate on Hartcliffe Way will let outbound buses reach Vale Lane and on via Headley Lane. • Residents will have access as far as Wimbourne Road, from where it will be buses only. • Vehicles will be able to get to the Vale Lane Industrial Estate. • Novers Hill will be one-way outbound between Lynton Road and Novers Road.
Metrobus Metrobus vehicles will look like ordinary buses but will cut journey times dramatically from South Bristol. Services are due to start in 2017 – but no operator has yet been found to run them.
Get ready for traffic jams galore throughout 2017
The South Bristol Link This new road runs from the Long Ashton bypass to Hengrove Way. It is due to open by the end of 2016 and will become the new A4174, replacing Parson Street and Hartcliffe Way.
SOUTH Bristol is set for a perfect storm of road closures and traffic jams in the next 12 months, the Voice can reveal. A combination of roadworks for Metrobus, the South Bristol Link road and redevelopment
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around Temple Meads will see lanes closed and diversions throughout 2017. Winterstoke Road in Ashton will be closed for the first weekend in December so the beams for a new bridge for MetroBus can be lifted into place. MetroBus says it is working with Bristol Sport to ensure football and rugby fans are kept informed – but residents who already suffer traffic and parking woes on match days will fear even worse disruption. Next year the disruption will spread. Work will start on digging up Temple Circus roundabout “early in the New Year”, according to the council. The roundabout will be replaced by a traffic-light-controlled crossroads. Work is likely to take most of the year. Details will be unveiled “in the next few weeks”. The land occupied by the roundabout will become a public square and provide easy
Can it be true – an A37 Park & Ride? A LONG-TERM vision for the next 20 years could see radical transport changes along the A37 corridor, including a Park & Ride. Consultation has started on the Joint Spatial Strategy and an allied Joint Transport Study for the West of England. South Bristolians will be drawn to the idea of a Park and Ride somewhere near Whitchurch (no site is specified). Such a scheme was a major demand from many who fear that visitors to the arena will need more options to deter
pedestrian and cycle access to and from Temple Meads, as well as a Metrobus stop on Redcliffe Way. The new plaza and its buildings will not be finished until about 2020. Meanwhile, Hartcliffe Way is set to become one-way for 10 months next year. It will become inbound (or northbound) only from January – though no date has been announced. This will allow a Metrobus lane along the outbound, or eastern, side of the road. Consultation was held with residents in early November and with businesses on November 14 – though publicity appears to have been very limited. It is hoped the South Bristol Link, due to open by the end of the year, will take some pressure off Hartcliffe Way. There are many other Metrobus-related roadworks. More on all these schemes at • travelwest.info/metrobus them from parking near the venue. Also proposed are 3,500 homes to the south east of Whitchurch Village. But this could only happen with new transport links, such as an orbital Metrobus linking the A4 and A37 from Hicks Gate to Whitchurch. Ordinary bus routes would also need to be upgraded. The proposals are a joint effort between councils in Bristol, Bath, South Glos and North Somerset to identify sites for 39,000 homes, and provide £7.5 billion in transport improvements. Consultation is open until December 19 at: • www.jointplanningwofe.org.uk
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