Barrs Court Red Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Portway, M5? That's a massive detour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciderhead433 Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Being a born and bred knowle Wester always wondered why South Bristol never got the investment the rest of Bristol get. The hospital was promised before WW2 when Knowle was build and the swimming pool and collage are only replacement and not new. If they build a ring road it will bring massive investment to the area but am not going to hold my breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_bristol Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Its differcult getting to the Portway as there is no link road from the Bs13 area and you are stuck in traffic from Bishopworth Road , Hartcliffe way , Bediminster Down road , Wintertoke Road and then onto the Plimsol Bridge all traffic heading towards town . There is no link road between the A38 and A370 . Also the Portway is no use if going Eastward. That's the case at rush hour but its the same at the other end of the ring road (M32, M4 Hambrook etc). Even with the proposed extension to the ring road you'll still have a nightmare going eastbound at rush-hour, unless they put in a new M4 junction at Emersons Green which might help, but even with that I'd probably still go through bridge-yate and wick and get on the M4 at the Bath junction, at rush hour and through town off-peak. The South Bristol link will join the A38 and A370 and if that goes ahead I think development of Ahston Vale and beyond is inevitable - lets just hope the anti-growth brigade don't get their way. On a separate note the slow rate of growth in South Bristol might actually benefit it in the long run. The Belgium-sized housing estates in the north (Bradley Stike, Yate, Emersons Green) were designed around car ownership, and personally I'd feel trapped if I lived there without a car. Wacking 10,000 houses on the edge of South Bristol IMO is a race to the bottom. Get the transport infrastructure sorted first then put the houses in. Easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_bristol Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 That's a massive detour I think I've missed half the conversation here. A massive detour to/from where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manon Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 That is still the route from Bs3 and bs13 to the M32 . However they also wants to close Redcliffe Hill as well . They want to limit the hill to single carriageway and restrict movement from there onwards, ie not across redcliffe way, where there will be a public square. With regards to prosperity(debatable - but certainly in a business sense) in south bristol, apart from the soon to be completed ring road, what it really needs is the talked about m4/m5 link from junction 18 to 21 weston. Doubt it would ever happen though.. If you thought the av nimbys are a pain, imagine the amount of them to come crawling out for this project. It would split between bath and bristol at saltford, crossing the back gardens of hundreds in the political/rich & famous hotbed that is BANES, then rip through the beautiful countryside past chew magma lake. It would finally link the airport to the motorway network, and would give the cockneys a decent holiday route alternative to the a303. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCAGFC Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 I blame it all on NickJ. He is against all development around South Bristol. BCAGFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avalonred Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 I blame it all on NickJ. He is against all development around South Bristol. BCAGFC Especially if it's going past HIS back garden in the Chew Valley (Chew 'Magma' lake)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Remember when the M32 (Parkway) when it was being built? Part of it would pass near Brandon Hill and many houses in Totterdown were demolished in the 60s to clear a route for the Parkway. The houses were demolished OK, but nearly 40 years on and the Parkway still doesn't go South of the river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciderhead433 Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Remember when the M32 (Parkway) when it was being built? Part of it would pass near Brandon Hill and many houses in Totterdown were demolished in the 60s to clear a route for the Parkway. The houses were demolished OK, but nearly 40 years on and the Parkway still doesn't go South of the river. Used to play in the derilect building theres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Drove through Stockwood the other day. Massive new investment there. They have installed a second zebra crossing!! Is this the only district in Bristol with no fixed traffic lights whatsoever? Talk about a backwater. This must be the quiet area of South Bristol. It desparately needs the ring road link but with the Golf course in place and plenty of nimbys living close by, it will not be built any time soon, which is a shame as it would have given good access to the never to be built Ashton Vale stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCAGFC Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Drove through Stockwood the other day. Massive new investment there. They have installed a second zebra crossing!! Is this the only district in Bristol with no fixed traffic lights whatsoever? Talk about a backwater. This must be the quiet area of South Bristol. It desparately needs the ring road link but with the Golf course in place and plenty of nimbys living close by, it will not be built any time soon, which is a shame as it would have given good access to the never to be built Ashton Vale stadium. Ssshhhhhhhhhh, don;t tell StockwoodPete, he will be out scraping it off the road. Stockwood is very quite although there are some young ****heads around....have had to get my bat out on numerous occasions. BTW, where is it?, I haven't seen anything. BCAGFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manon Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 It desparately needs the ring road link but with the Golf course in place and plenty of nimbys living close by, it will not be built any time soon, which is a shame as it would have given good access to the never to be built Ashton Vale stadium. I believe it will. Funding has been recently approved, and most if the housing was built with the ring road still in mind (st georges rd the prime example, check out an aerial), so no excuses from residents there. Think the council intend it to be completed by 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manon Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Edit: sorry king georges rd not st georges. There is a visible gap from the southern end of hengrove way which runs to join king georges(which has extra wide verges either side of the road), which it self will run across high ridge common to join a38. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redcityman Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Edit: sorry king georges rd not st georges. There is a visible gap from the southern end of hengrove way which runs to join king georges(which has extra wide verges either side of the road), which it self will run across high ridge common to join a38. Yes Highridge common, which has been a common for centuries, a dual carriage way splitting right through a community, now if only we had some dog walkers. Funny how people will complain about field of rubbish but not land laid down as common land by King John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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