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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