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Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/9756
Written by Nick Field on Wednesday, 30th January 2008

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/image_galleries/cycle_paths_gallery.shtml
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2007/cyclists-pedestrians-and-passengers-can-co-exist-on-shared-path.en

Utterly unbelievable.

Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/9767
Written by Lee on Thursday, 31st January 2008

See link below.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1479.msg9105#msg9105

Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/12430
Written by Nick on Friday, 23rd May 2008

Surely what Bristol really needs is a Metro system? Newcastle has one with only a population of 260,000 so I can't see why a city with a population of around 410,000 like Bristol wouldn't be able to support one...

Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/12446
Written by Industry Insider on Saturday, 24th May 2008

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Surely what Bristol really needs is a Metro system? Newcastle has one with only a population of 260,000 so I can't see why a city with a population of around 410,000 like Bristol wouldn't be able to support one...
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I'm not necessarily advocating that Bristol would be un-suited to some kind of metro system, but the Tyne & Wear Metro serves so much more than just the City of Newcastle - If you take into account the whole conurabation of Tyne & Wear and then add on the population of Sunderland you get a population figure of well over a million. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conurbations_in_the_United_Kingdom[/url]

Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/12450
Written by Sion Bretton on Sunday, 25th May 2008

But there are the towns/city of Weston Super mare, Bath Yate Portshead which could all link up onto rapid transit system

Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route? - 5494/12451
Written by Nick on Sunday, 25th May 2008

What about other parts of the country...we could link up Liverpool, Machester and Leeds witha metro, and Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Coventry and Leicster could be linked...Derby, Nottingham, Stoke on Trent.

 
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham.

Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome.

The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users.

We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can.

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