Bristol’s transport improvements: what do locals think?

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Today we look at bristol’s public transport and find out how locals find it. In the last year bristol city council has invested a lot of time into public transport, including the opening of new railway stations with more to come in the coming years.

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00:00 I think it definitely could be improved a lot more.

00:03 Basically with timekeeping, sometimes they don't turn up, which is annoying,

00:10 especially if you've got an appointment to go somewhere.

00:12 Yeah, it could be improved. It's alright, it's okay.

00:18 But yeah, there's always room for improvement, I think.

00:22 Me, I'm old age, so I have my bus pass.

00:27 So I don't complain about the money, but it's a time-wasting, wasting the time.

00:36 The rain or...

00:38 Oh, every day, every week when I do the shopping, I wait in line over there.

00:44 On X, many Bristolians have discussed that there have been large delays due to roadworks,

00:53 but has this affected their use of public transport?

00:57 I stopped using public transport when my husband had his strokes, and that was 2014.

01:01 When I have to go visit my daughter, and she lives in Brislington,

01:04 it's gone sometimes from a 45-minute journey to an hour and a half,

01:07 because all the roads to her are cut off because of roadworks,

01:11 especially waterworks or something like that, and it's for weeks.

01:14 And it puts more time in, it's like,

01:17 there really can be poverty to go over there today, but you have to, so...

01:20 Yeah, it's too much roadworks every other day.

01:22 Every time I go that way, there's another set of temporary lights, it's too much.

01:27 I use it when I can, yes.

01:29 If I go downtown, yes, I'll catch the bus, pay a five-year-old, eight-month-old day rider,

01:33 rather than pay like eight grand parking.

01:35 So, yeah, the city council's doing right, yeah, we've got...

01:38 We've been in love.

01:40 We've been in love with our cars the last 50 years.

01:42 And I can remember Mr Red Trousers.

01:45 You know, anybody that sticks their head above the carpet and has to go to the petrolheads

01:49 gets annihilated by the likes of Mr Clarkson and what have you.

01:54 But I'm afraid we're just a crowded little island like Singapore.

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