Half of South Bristol has been ‘cut off’ and ‘left as an afterthought’, a local councillor has said, after the e-scooter company Voi failed to expand the scooter hire trial into communities on the southern edge of the city.
Mystery surrounds exactly why Swedish firm Voi has not yet expanded its scooter trial area into communities in South Bristol, but this expansion was announced in March and was supposed to have happened in June and July.
The expansion of the scheme into the rest of north west Bristol, from Southmead to Avonmouth, happened as planned back in early June, but everywhere south of the A4174 ring road, which separates areas like Knowle and Bishopsworth from parts of the city further south like Withywood, Hartcliffe, Hengrove, Whitchurch and Stockwood, is still a ‘no-go area’ for the e-scooters.
