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Article in the New Civil Engineer today. Keep an eye out for consultation events where we can demand a stop at Ashton Gate. Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has laid out his envisaged timeline for the development of the city’s mass transit system, promising “shovels in the ground” by 2029-2030. Rees was speaking at this week’s city Bristol City Council cabinet meeting where counsellors formally received West of England Combined Authority’s (WECA) £191M grant from the government’s City Regions Sustainable Transport, which is to be spread over the next five years. Last year WECA revealed that it had already invested £1.5M to explore ideas for a £4bn underground and overground rail network. The proposal included four routes that would connect the city centre with Bristol Airport, Cribbs Causeway, Emersons Green and the A4 corridor towards Bath, with various stops in the middle. At the meeting, Rees explained the timeline for how this could be brought to fruition. An early consultation on 19 different options for mass transit will go out shortly, with Rees saying they are ready even though they have already been delayed. He continued: “If we get a move on with that, by September we can start the work on the strategic outline business case – £7M has been allocated to that.” The next step, according to Rees, will see the commission of the outline business case by mid-2023, with £10M allocated in the combined authority to fund it. “If we can get as much political agreement as possible then that process will move all the quicker,” he added. Rees hopes to then have the outline business case by 2024-25. Referring back to the 19 options currently mooted, he said: “the speed of [receiving the outline business case] will also depend on how successful the strategic outline business case is in narrowing down the options.” Continuing, he said: “Then by 2026-27 we can be with the full business case – again that depends on how successful the previous processes are – and then by 2029-30 we could be digging holes, have shovels in the ground for the mass transit system.” Rees expressed his frustration that these actions had not been taken previously. He has confirmed that he will not run for a third term, so the work will be carried forward by future city leaders whoever becomes mayor in 2024.

Financial problems at City, followed by alleged financial problems at Bears. Looks like BS haven’t been paying enough attention.

I’ve had Sky with sports and cinema for over 20 years but it just isn’t good value. They have cut the amount of content on cinema and sports while putting prices up. Fortunately Virgin Media have just installed cables in our street. I can get their full package with 350Mbps broadband for £70 per month or I can keep paying sky £140 per month with slower broadband. I’m just waiting for the current contract period to end and I’m off.

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Some interesting thoughts from yesterdays race: Merc engine in last 6 finishers. is the factory merc pace affected by engine as much as the porpoising effect Pace gap between tyre types seems larger than last year, starting on medium was a major factor in McLaren positions Red bull didn’t do a race sim in pre season. Rumours they simply ran out of fuel yesterday Great to see Ferrari back at the front

Red Bull Powertrains give you spins

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The street includes verges, not just the carriageway.

If there are no visible restrictions, challenge it

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The way our media team are carrying on, you’d think we just got promoted

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