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Severn Man A's avatar

Commuter rail in/around Bristol is notably poor, although there are a few projects underway (including this one) to improve it.

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Brian Q Love's avatar

Congratulations on a very insightful post. The point about the number of homes associated with a Development Consent Order is extremely relevant. For a visual description of the possibilities see https://www.connectedcities.org/case-studies/bristol-tirunelveli/bristol

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Ben Hopkinson's avatar

That's an interesting case study, and definitely goes to show that there is plenty of opportunity to build homes around Bristol and link them to public transport.

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Nickrl's avatar

The housing change is helpful but the question should be why does an existing railway line thats never been formerly shut require to jump through so many hoops. Then the second question is how does a couple of miles of new railway and a few stations come to 152m or call it 120m after 32m spent on paperwork. There needs to be full frontal challenge as to why UK railway projects are costing so much compared to their European peers.

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