Bristol City Council<\/a>, said: “The Southern Gateway is more than just a modern, high-quality transport hub, it is essential for the ongoing transformation of the long-neglected area around Bristol Temple Meads station. I’m thrilled to see our plans make it this far and I’m looking forward to seeing construction start.”<\/p>\nMarcus Jones, Western Route Director at Network Rail, added: “When Brunel opened Bristol Temple Meads 185 years ago it was truly world-class with many innovations that are now commonplace at stations everywhere. The station is now going through a transformation to make it fit for the future.”<\/p>\n
Network Rail says the goal of the Southern Gateway is to consolidate existing car parking scattered around the station into one central location. This will free up space to the north of the station \u2013 including at the Friary, Station Approach and the Grade I listed Midland Shed \u2013 for new developments, public areas, and travel links. The Bristol Temple Quarter programme aims to deliver 10,000 new homes around the station.<\/p>\n
Commenter Nick4765 is suspicious: \u201cCar park? It looks like a prime place for some student accommodation given the huge new Bristol University development nearby – maybe the plan will change along the way?\u201d<\/p>\n
Asmodeus thinks: \u201cThis is not consistent with reducing traffic volumes and congestion through this part of central Bristol. Who are the intended users of this? In the Temple Quarter Development there will be very little car parking space for the alleged 10,000 new households, so 379 spaces in this multi-storey park will be far too few if people decide not to rely on public transport or e-scooters. Rail passengers arriving by car may not get a look-in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Junius replies: \u201cIf the transport hub has facilities for bikes (including electric), buses, e-scooters (no doubt), a space for an as yet unidentified mass transit system and improved infrastructure for walking, why would cars still need to be used for arrival at, or pick up from, the station? The bigger question is whether 10,000 alleged new households in the development will or will not choose to have cars despite the lack of space to park or store them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bs3bob complains: \u201cOnce again the council are approving plans that could make the traffic on one of Bristol’s main arterial roads worse. The queues trying to get into Cabot Circus car park already create issues causing jams for people trying to get to the M32 and out of Bristol.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blackbeard83 replies: \u201cA train station won\u2019t attract as many cars as a shopping center. Most people don’t want to pay for an extra car park when they’re travelling. They’ll still use buses & trains to get there. It will just be used by surrounding offices along with pick up & collections from the station.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Bryant thinks: \u201cTemple Meads doesn’t need a huge car park. There are plenty of public transport options to get there and many people walk anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barry Wood replies: \u201cIf you live out of the central Bristol area, the public transport is very limited outside of peak daytimes. A car park is essential if they want more people to use the train for long journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dan Tapscott likes the idea: \u201cThank goodness. Now, provided we can get to it and it\u2019s affordable, this will be brilliant. Well done to all involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian Reeve not so much: \u201cBristol is supposed to be the green city of culture and we build a massive car park in the centre of Temple Meads!\u201d<\/p>\n
Is a new car park at Temple Meads the right move, or does it clash with Bristol\u2019s green goals? Tell us what you think in our comments section.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The car park will be built on the site of a former Kwik Fit garage Bristol Live readers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,3893,748,10006,393,4884,1836,30437,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-commenting-content","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-network-rail","15":"tag-temple-meads","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946521531032491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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