I will be adding further blogs later this week as I now have paperwork on how the Portway Park and Ride was expected to work and is a matter of public record. Some of the information will be scanned as jpegs to save time. Comparisons will be drawn from back then to information that is currently available.
There are also mentions in statements dating back as far as 1995 of a 1,750 parking space P&R and a 1,500 plus parking space P&R for the area. Two petitions presented in 1995 and then 2001 and also evidence of our local Councillors at the time respresenting the Local Community and working with the local community organisations in the area. I even found a mention of the land at one point to be considered for sporting facilities for the area (and this was not Robin Cousins Sport Centre), travellers site and car pound.
There is also a long history of objections to this P&R because the site is in the wrong place, heavy traffic flow due to the industrial estates in Avonmouth, (from the City, Cumberland Basin and other directions and back again remember the industrial area has no Public Transport service) and it doesn't intercept the traffic on route. For example we'll use the M32 proposed project where traffic in an ideal world would be intercepted on its way into the City right off the motorway. Whereas the Portway Park and Ride you have to come off the motorway come off two roundabouts, or a link road and a roundabout, (depending which direction you are coming from) drive down the Portway through a residential area of Avonmouth to get to the Park and Ride. Encourages more traffic off their route and into an already heavy traffic area. One or two of these remain valid points but the P&R was built and it has it's use but it doesn't solve the traffic problem.
BUT there are local plans, transport plans, strategic plans and other policies made that are meant to cover a ten year forward planning period and sometimes these plans are revised in between times too.
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