Bristol seeks London-style transport body

08 November 2006
 
Groups representing thousands of residents in Bristol called this week for the creation of a ‘Transport for Bristol’ to provide the leadership needed to cut congestion and improve transport.
The Bristol Civic Society, Bristol Living Streets and cycling group CTC said that they wanted the same benefits as Manchester.
This follows the call from Greater Manchester's authorities for a London-style transport body with highways powers and the ability to raise revenue.
Chris Gittins, local Living Streets spokesman, said that since the abolition of the Avon authority and creation of the four replacement unitary councils a decade ago, ‘very little’ had happened to improve transport.
He acknowledged that the disagreement over the location of the depot for an ultimately doomed tram proposal was long past, and that new joint committee arrangements had since been established to draw up and implement the second local transport plan.
But the committee entailed ‘an awful negotiating process. The improvements to radial bus routes and park and ride will merely stave off two years of traffic growth,’ he said. A Bristol council spokesman said its West of England partnership ‘provides an effective model for co-ordinating sub-regional approaches’. The four councils were not proposing new structures, but had asked the Government ‘to recognise the effectiveness of the existing arrangements’.

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