Major boost for Bristol’s transport system?

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A major boost for Bristol’s transport future has just landed—an eight‑hundred‑million‑pound investment aimed at overhauling how people move across the city and region.

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00:00A major boost for Bristol's transport future has just landed – an £800 million investment

00:10aimed at overhauling how people move across the city and region.

00:16That funding comes from a wider £15.6 billion government package for public transport outside

00:23of London with £800 million earmarked for the west of England, including £200 million specifically

00:30to develop a new mass transit system linking Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North

00:36Somerset.

00:38So what could that look like for our street?

00:41Officials stress that this is a day one of a long journey and exploratory plans include

00:46boosting train services, rolling out more electric buses and even reintroducing trams

00:52or light rail to create a fully integrated network.

00:56Work is already underway to transform central routes.

00:59The Red Route corridor through Union Street, Bond Street, Bedminster and Redcliffe is being

01:05remodelled with fully segregated lanes.

01:09These are being designed to support either rapid bus or tram vehicles free from regular

01:14traffic delays.

01:16Campaigners like Moving Bristol Forward argue that trams would slash pollution carry

01:22far more people than buses and now cost less to build thanks to lighter, shallower track

01:27technology.

01:29An £800 million price tag and a long timeline might not silence critics, but for local communities,

01:37these early steps could mark the start of a transport revolution that many feel has been long overdue.

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