West of England Mayor Dan Norris has said Bristol will not be getting the long-awaited underground system planned by the city's Mayor Marvin Rees. Speaking on BBC Points West on Monday, where he was being interviewed about the state of Bristol's bus network, he was asked: "In one word, are we going to get the underground in Bristol?" to which he replied: "No."
Plans for a mass transit system for the city, with a mixture of overground and underground networks, were officially introduced by Mr Rees in his State of the City Address in 2017. As yet, there has still been no construction work on the project, and the estimated cost of £4 billion several years ago will now almost certainly have increased due to years of delays and high inflation.
During last year's State of the City speech, Mr Rees, said: "We have continued the work to build a mass transit system that will transform the way we move around the city region. The economic and geological assessment work has been done.
