An extra £15 million will be spent on planning Bristol’s new mass transit system including an underground rail network. But it’s currently unclear what the £15 million, announced by the mayor of Bristol last week, will actually be spent on.
Plans for the mass transit system were first revealed in 2017, and would see four new overground and underground lines, as well as segregated bus routes and new train stations. In 2018, Bristol City Council estimated it would cost £4 billion to build.
Construction work on the new rail network was initially due to begin this year, but has been beset by delays. Now, Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has pledged to spend a further £15 million on the mass transit system, but declined to give details about how that money will be spent.
