For a city known for progressiveness, Bristol's transport network is in quite a sorry state. Abandoned train lines, bus lanes costing hundreds of millions, and a sadistic local authority (South Gloucestershire) all paint a rather unpleasant picture of "The Gateway to the West". But it hasn't always been this way, and it doesn't have to be in future, so what can be done to get Bristol's trains and buses back in shape?


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Music:
Putting on the Ritz - Irving Berlin (performed by Freedom Trail Studio)
Side Steppin' - Otis McDonald



Photograpy:
(Banksy) Dominic Robinson, (Plimsoll House) Derek Harper, (Lawrence Hill 1970s) Andy Kirkham, (Banksy, Park Street) Roger May, (George Ferguson) Alistair Campbell, (Portishead Line) Reading Tom, (Portishead Line under Clifton Suspension Bridge) Greater Bristol Metro Rail, (London overground trains) Richard Vince, (Railway Path, Warmley station) Rob Purvis, (B&Q, Imperial Retail Park, Hengrove) Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

(Antwerpen Pre-Metro) Vitaly Volkov/Волков Виталий Сергеевич, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

(Bristol airport) Tomccoll, (Bristol Omnibus) Editor5807, (Greater Bristol Metro map, with modifications by myself) Pi.1415926535, (GWR steam engine at Temple Meads) Matt Prosser, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., via Wikimedia Commons

(Clifton Suspension Bridge) Chris Lathom-Sharp, (Bristol road map) RedSquirrel, (Crowd after toppling Colston statue) Greenhill22, (Marvin Rees) Rwendland, (m1 side profile) Geof Sheppard, (Class 165 interior) I Like The british Rail Class 483 (with cropping, alignment, and exposure adjustments by XAM2175), (Brunel statue) Bärbel Miemietz, (Hannover Stadtbahn) Clic, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

(Bristol trams, photo of horse drawn tram and depot unknown) Garratt, (Brunel) Robert Howlett (British, 1831–1858) Restored by Bammesk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

(Bristol Tramway Generating Station) Christine Johnstone, Creative Commons Licence

Ben Brooksbank / Local train at Lawrence Hill Station

(Bristol bus map) https://www.firstbus.co.uk/bristol-ba...

(metrobus map) https://travelwest.info/metrobus/#net...

(Tap On Tap Off machine) First Bus

(Boarding a First Bus) First Bus

(Pride of the North bus) Transdev

(metrobus fares list) TravelWest

(Bee Network buses in depot) Transport for Greater Manchester

(Departures from Lawrence Hill) Realtime Trains

(Portway poster) https://www.gwrsouvenirs.co.uk/GWR/p-...

(Railway path overview) Google Earth

(Monument station, Tyne & Wear Metro) citytransportinfo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

(Brabazon) https://www.brabazon.co.uk/


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