Work to repair a collapsed path and road along the River Avon embankment that has been closed for years will take another three months, because the contractor doing the work has been hampered by high tides.
Cumberland Road, the harbour railway and the Chocolate Path alongside the New Cut was supposed to be repaired and reopened this May, but now Bristol City Council said it won’t be fully open until the end of July because of ‘unavoidable delays’.
Issues with the Chocolate Path and the embankment wall began in December 2016 - some six and a half years ago - and the path and the railway were closed off in December 2017, but nothing was done to fix the problems before the entire embankment collapsed into the river in early 2020, taking half the road with it as well.
