I’d be up in arms if I was a local council tax payer.
I was thinking £15m sounds cheap for an underground system. Then realised thats just for study to tell them its too expensive!
That’s an impressive amount of money pissed up the wall for a study.
Should be an investigation into that mayor and those involved.
I hope Bristol gets the funding for this project once the study has been completed. The only way to break London’s stranglehold on this country is massive continual investment in our other cities.
£15m to consultants to spend 5 years to come up with a price so high no one will ever fund it.
Legalised theft of taxpayers money.
Not a resident, but a frequent visitor to Bristol…. Is Bristol actually big enough to need an underground?
It always feels like you can walk from one side of the city to the other in around 30 minutes, and most of the main locations are all within 10 minutes of each other.
Bristol is hell to get around whether you drive, take public transport or cycle. An underground train system would be a massive improvement.
Although they could start with having the current trains run after 11pm so I don’t have to drive home after a gig.
What a waste of money..could use that to improve london
Build a Bangkok/Vancouver/DLR style elevated train system with only the core section through the city centre tunnelled. Use the existing railway infrastructure and then add elevated sections above the motorways and dual carriages running through the city.
It would save a fortune and actually be a viable idea rather than pissing money up the wall.
>At the moment we have to do a cost-benefit analysis of all the different options that are currently being considered, one of which is the underground system that Marvin’s keen on.
Seems like he’s mainly doing this to shut up his opponent.
I suspect the outcome of this is that they’ll end up with a Bus Rapid Transit system, which is cheap but not exactly a mass transit system.
Spending £15,000,000 on a study for a project that is never going to happen is simply wasting public money in my book. Vanity run amuck.
Title is a bit misleading, says it will be “mass transport network”, so that could be trams/bus/overground trains etc., not just underground.
But how on earth can a study like this cost £15m? Some consultant will be laughing all the way to the bank. Are there any more details other than cost, how long will the study take etc.?
Wouldn’t be surprised if this costs the same if not more than crossrail.
The geology is completely different (in other words terrible) in Bristol. London tunnels largely go through London clay which is simple to bore through.
In my opinion, Bristol could do with two things:
1) A rail link to the airport.
2) The henbury loop line turned into a passenger service. For access to cribbs causeway.
Improving public transport is always welcomed, but this seems to be a waste of public money given that it’s already known Bristol’s geography and geology would make the construction of any underground rail system not only prohibitively expensive and arduous, but also risks installing transit stations that are more difficult to access than above ground alternatives.
Bristol’s transport issues don’t necessarily lie with a lack of public transport but more the fact that the transport network has been Balkanised into several ‘competing’ private organisations who seemingly never face any consequences for offering increasingly poor services.
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15 million??
I’d be up in arms if I was a local council tax payer.
I was thinking £15m sounds cheap for an underground system. Then realised thats just for study to tell them its too expensive!
That’s an impressive amount of money pissed up the wall for a study.
Should be an investigation into that mayor and those involved.
I hope Bristol gets the funding for this project once the study has been completed. The only way to break London’s stranglehold on this country is massive continual investment in our other cities.
£15m to consultants to spend 5 years to come up with a price so high no one will ever fund it.
Legalised theft of taxpayers money.
Not a resident, but a frequent visitor to Bristol…. Is Bristol actually big enough to need an underground?
It always feels like you can walk from one side of the city to the other in around 30 minutes, and most of the main locations are all within 10 minutes of each other.
Bristol is hell to get around whether you drive, take public transport or cycle. An underground train system would be a massive improvement.
Although they could start with having the current trains run after 11pm so I don’t have to drive home after a gig.
What a waste of money..could use that to improve london
Build a Bangkok/Vancouver/DLR style elevated train system with only the core section through the city centre tunnelled. Use the existing railway infrastructure and then add elevated sections above the motorways and dual carriages running through the city.
It would save a fortune and actually be a viable idea rather than pissing money up the wall.
>At the moment we have to do a cost-benefit analysis of all the different options that are currently being considered, one of which is the underground system that Marvin’s keen on.
Seems like he’s mainly doing this to shut up his opponent.
I suspect the outcome of this is that they’ll end up with a Bus Rapid Transit system, which is cheap but not exactly a mass transit system.
Spending £15,000,000 on a study for a project that is never going to happen is simply wasting public money in my book. Vanity run amuck.
Title is a bit misleading, says it will be “mass transport network”, so that could be trams/bus/overground trains etc., not just underground.
But how on earth can a study like this cost £15m? Some consultant will be laughing all the way to the bank. Are there any more details other than cost, how long will the study take etc.?
Wouldn’t be surprised if this costs the same if not more than crossrail.
The geology is completely different (in other words terrible) in Bristol. London tunnels largely go through London clay which is simple to bore through.
In my opinion, Bristol could do with two things:
1) A rail link to the airport.
2) The henbury loop line turned into a passenger service. For access to cribbs causeway.
Improving public transport is always welcomed, but this seems to be a waste of public money given that it’s already known Bristol’s geography and geology would make the construction of any underground rail system not only prohibitively expensive and arduous, but also risks installing transit stations that are more difficult to access than above ground alternatives.
Bristol’s transport issues don’t necessarily lie with a lack of public transport but more the fact that the transport network has been Balkanised into several ‘competing’ private organisations who seemingly never face any consequences for offering increasingly poor services.