Bristol’s transport infrastructure is critical to creating cleaner and safer places. Our future-focused strategy puts economic recovery and renewal at its heart. We are proactively responding to changes in travel patterns, addressing air quality and connecting all our businesses and citizens with efficient, accessible choices to navigate the city.
Our transport and movement strategy aligns with our development priorities for Bristol. This means it will ensure we deliver future homes, jobs and quality places, alongside improved connectivity and protection for our green spaces.
Concentrating on areas with communities experiencing long-term deprivation, all improvements must be achieved while tackling the climate and ecological emergencies at every step.
We’ve made improvements in the city centre, to prioritise walking, cycling and public transport and create more space for people and businesses to thrive in. The changes include:
Alignment
This project aligns with our ambitions to make the city centre a destination for work, leisure, tourism and investment, key to our sustainable development goals:
We want to give local businesses and residents more space to use Bristol roads and provide safer walking and cycling routes. This means we have retained access to roads, but prevented through-traffic by closing it at one end or in the middle.
The project will also create protected bike lanes and improvements to walking routes and pedestrian crossing facilities, as well as new high-quality, on-street, secure cycle shelters across the city for residents in flat or terraced apartments.
Alignments
This project directly drives both a core principle of our transport strategy:
And, our city-wide Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) development framework:
It is a crucial anchor in the #BristolTogether campaign.
For Bristol to be an attractive place to work, live and visit for everyone, it needs a transport network that supports the local economy, enhances the urban environment, and contributes to high-quality, people friendly places.
The city is experiencing the biggest investment in living memory with around £800m already being invested in transport infrastructure in recent years.
This investment includes the first three routes of a MetroBus Rapid Transport network linking the city centre to the North Fringe and South Bristol.
The MetroWest suburban rail scheme includes introducing a number of new cross city services and better timings.
Cycle ambition Fund programmes are helping to improve cycle infrastructure and transport investment linked to the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone that will provide sustainable transport access to new jobs.
We are also working with neighbouring West of England councils on plans for a mass transit system. This is a high-capacity public transport network that provides fast, frequent and reliable services. It could lead to more people moving away from cars, resulting in less congestion, lower carbon emissions and improved air quality. Find out more.
Alignment
Our commitment to these broader plans drives two of our core Sustainable Development Goals:
