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Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
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Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
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Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 10:41:15 AM »
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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Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2008, 10:38:08 AM »
Quote from: Nick on May 23, 2008, 10:41:15 AM
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...

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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conurbations_in_the_United_Kingdom
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Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2008, 10:09:49 AM »
But there are the towns/city of Weston Super mare, Bath Yate Portshead which could all link up onto rapid transit system
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Re: Part of Bristol to Bath cycle way to be converted to rapid transit route?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2008, 10:51:23 AM »
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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