A load of detailed questions about the South Bristol Link were due to be answered at Tuesday's Cabinet Meeting. Several of them were based on damning data in the 'Options Appraisal' of last winter, to find out whether, as suspected, the latest scheme, introduced a couple of months ago, really performs as badly as the previous ones did in that Appraisal.
But answer came there none. Or rather, we were told that the officers and executive don't know the answers.
This time, no-one knows what congestion might be expected as a result of the new road bringing in new traffic. No-one knows how many more vehicles will thunder through South Bristol. No-one knows how it will affect journey times into the city in the morning peak rush. No-one knows if the scheme's proposed BRT 'figleaf' has the remotest chance of breaking even.
Because no-one's asked.
And maybe that tells us more than we could have got from any set of consultants predictive traffic modelling.
The story's on the Green Party's website here
2 comments:
Pete,
the questions and answers aren't available for download on the Green party site?
That's me struggling with our new-look website! I hope I've put it right this time, linked from the press release to www.bristolgreenparty.org.uk/doc_download/11-091124cabinetqa3.html
And if that doesn't work, the Q&A are now in the council minutes anyway
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