South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) looks set to abandon plans to introduce parking restrictions in a number of Stoke Gifford streets after 37 objections were received in response to the ‘statutory advertisement’ of the proposed measures. The main purpose of the scheme, known as ‘Parkway Station Area – Review of waiting restrictions Phase 3‘, is to “discourage all-day parking by rail users and students
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Construction of the main North Fringe to Hengrove Package MetroBus route that will link Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway and Bristol city centre may be yet to start, but South Gloucestershire Council is already in the early stages of planning an extension to the scheme, which will provide a more direct route between Parkway Station and The Mall, via the
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Transport Minister Baroness Kramer visited Stoke Gifford today to officially open a £13 million new station car park that will increase capacity and convenience for thousands of passengers. The multi-storey car park at Bristol Parkway will provide an extra 710 parking spaces, in addition to the existing 1,100, to cater for increasing numbers of passengers using the station. Before the
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A temporary car park constructed on vacant land near Parkway Station has been built without planning permission, according to a local resident who has registered an objection with South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). First Great Western, operators of the railway station, announced the opening of a temporary car park at a site off Hunts Ground Road (opposite the Parkway North ‘park
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Rail Minister Stephen Hammond today visited Bristol Parkway Station to see first-hand the £13 million car park improvement works. One of the largest Station Commercial Projects Facility Fund projects that a train operator is managing, the work will see an additional 710 parking spaces created at this thriving station. Presently the car park can accommodate 1,100 vehicles and is regularly
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First Great Western (FGW) has announced that construction of a new three-storey car park at Parkway Station will commence on Saturday 13th July and continue until March 2014. The project, which will provide an additional 710 parking bays at the station, was originally due to be completed by March 2013. Work was scheduled to start last September, but, despite builders’
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First Group has introduced a number of new late night journeys on its number 73 Bristol City Centre to Cribbs Causeway route, thereby bringing a “night bus” service to Stoke Gifford for the first time in several years. Operating via Gloucester Road and Filton Avenue en route to and from Bristol City Centre and Bristol Parkway Station, the 73 is
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Car parking at Bristol Parkway railway station and in surrounding residential streets is likely to come under severe pressure from today as construction of a new multi-storey car park gets underway. With 400 spaces being taken out of service during the ‘fast track’ six month project, some travellers are likely to find it impossible to park, particularly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
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Bristol Parkway railway station could get a new multi-storey car park providing an additional 710 bays after officials at South Gloucestershire Council cleared the way for a formal planning application to be made by Network Rail. Funding for the project has already been approved by the Government, in the second tranche of its £100M Station Commercial Projects Improvement Fund announced
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Train travel through Bristol Parkway has been severely disrupted this evening following a security alert that has led to the station being closed. Reports of a suspicious package and/or suspicious activity are believed to have led to a decision to evacuate the station. Around 300 passengers on two trains stopped at the station’s platforms were ordered out of their carriages
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