Locals react to much-anticipated Ashley Down Station in Bristol

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The much-anticipated Ashley Down Station opened on September 28.  We visited the station on opening day to learn about locals’ thought about the new station.  These were  Bristolians’ reactions to the new station.

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00:00Ashidown station has finally opened its doors. Let's ask locals what they think about the new station.

00:08I think I'll probably still continue to use Montpellier because it's a little bit nearer

00:12and it's cheaper, it's probably cheaper. However, yeah, this one may be used, what would be useful

00:18if going to Parkway station to go up north sometimes, you know, but I can see, yeah, I

00:24should see, I'll definitely use it sometimes. Montpellier will still be my main one but this is,

00:30yeah. Probably like won't use it like every day but I do work down just by Temple Meads so,

00:38you know, sometimes I might use it to, rather than, I normally cycle to work but, you know,

00:44if it's raining I might take the train instead and it's really good for things like today I'm

00:48going to Bath to meet some friends so it's just actually saved quite a lot of time by being able

00:53to go straight into Temple Meads and then get on another train so, yeah. Obviously want to use the,

01:00what do you call it, the cycle route more because that is the cycle route I'm familiar with

01:05but I would have to think sometimes going places, like on Monday I've got a dentist appointment

01:12so I could cycle to Temple Meads station, get the train up to here and probably get to the dentist

01:18quicker than cycling the whole way so I might do that. I have actually, after the dentist

01:24appointment, got somewhere else to go so it might be that getting down into town quicker on the train

01:31is going to work better for me. I need to look at the time so that's just one example on Monday,

01:36you know, the station gives extra choice. The disadvantage with the station is no toilets,

01:43yeah, there's the lift, that's great but, you know, to spend time here, you know,

01:49you can't really because you need toilets, yeah, so that's the one downside of it.

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