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Apparently there's an end of March deadline for UK residents in Spain who don't have residency status to return to the UK if they don't want to be deemed illegal immigrants, so I wonder if some of those flights are put on primarily for returning travelers.

Could just as well work in its favour though - "have to follow the law, can't give in to a small violent mob etc etc"

Funding 50% through private investment sounds rather ambitious, wonder what the plan for that is. The line towards the airport would be as much to support massive new housing developments in South Bristol and south of Bristol, as well as a new A38 P+R. And I suspect if there's even a remote...

It also might suggest less than an actual route :LOL: Can't wait to find out..

Perhaps it could be regarded as "permitted development" since it doesn't increase passenger numbers / capacity? Wasn't the Western Walkway done this way? Either way I don't imagine too many people will put up a fight against a public transport interchange (but then I would've said the same about...

Also, does anyone have the planning application reference for that, can't seem to find it.

Correction: This is actually either a heavy rail link or a light rail link according to the BSWEL Option Development Report from a few years ago.

I still think there must be solutions to the engineering challenges, e.g. build the airport station much lower and have escalators/lifts going up to the airport terminal. According to the latest draft of the Joint Local Transport Plan (JLTP4) a heavy rail "Bristol Airport Rail Link" is also...

My experience (BS3 resident) is that ever since the airport flyer was switched over to the MetroBus route via Long Ashton I take public transport to the airport much less often. Before I'd pretty much always take the bus. The A2 is just not frequent enough. Before I could just turn up and there...

The relevant pages in the office's report are p85 onwards which also features a table. Ubers/taxis should really be excluded from public transport statistics IMHO. It also appears that the CAA statistics differ in methodology, and the numbers (15% to 17.5%) refer to the Bristol Airport...

Didn't have very high expectations, but not overly impressed by the Proposed Planning Obligations re. surface access in Appendix 3 of the officer's report. Proposed increase in public transport from 15% to 17.5% with regular review and measures to make sure it's achieved, but nothing earth...

Also, it looks like it will have to be referred to the Secretary of State anyway (in case of approval), so in a way councillors can pass the buck.

Could it be related to the Bath Clean Air Zone which will come into effect in the near future and will charge high emission busses £100 per day?

I thought the Western Walkway was in the end deemed permitted development as long as it didn't expand capacity - I would imagine the same to be true for the Eastern Walkway?

Quite impressive and innovative, I have to say. No doubt it will eventually be reflected in the price of parking going forward, but still. Wonder how much that costs! The first carbon offset calculator/website on google suggests £5 per 1000km for a vehicle using 6l of petrol per 100km, so...

When I said cityscape I really mostly meant the skyline. The bits of the Old City and Clifton that double as London-60-years-ago are very nice indeed, no question about it!

Bristol's cityscape is pretty horrible to be honest, more reminiscent of some third rate soviet town in the 1980s than that of a major city in one of the richest countries on the planet. In that it is not alone though, pretty much all British cities other than London are like that really, to...

What seems remarkable to me is that both Glasgow and Edinburgh have multiple(?) daily services to JFK/EWR even though they are within short driving distance from each other. Would have thought twice-daily flights (for each airline) from one location would make for a better product than flights...

Isn't this matched / complemented by a contribution from the airport as well? (I have a vague memory of £400,000, but maybe that was for something else or the economic link in general in case that's a separate project).

This is certainly an interesting choice, going head-to-head with Easyjet which already flies 2-3x per week?