a smarter way to travel overview - bristol · 2015/16 nationally bus passengers fell by 0.6% in...
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A smarter way to travel
Overview
Bus passengers - Building on Success
48,000
50,000
52,000
54,000
56,000
58,000
60,000
62,000
64,000
66,000
68,000
Actual
Target
2012/13 data distorted by new ticket machines not
recording all passengers
Locally 7% growth
2015/16
Nationally bus passengers
fell by 0.6% in 2015/16
whilst in the
Metropolitan areas they
fell by 1.5%.
• 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 Offer
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
• 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
Other Benefits
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 18th
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