Each year the Bristol mayor gives a long lecture to a packed hall about his achievements, and most years also tend to see a shock new policy announced. However, many projects revealed in previous annual State of the City Addresses are yet to have happened.
Bristol is still waiting for powerboat racing to return to the docks, closing Park Street to cars, and an underground rail network, despite Marvin Rees revealing plans for all of these in previous years. He did, however, provide an update on the latter at this week's State of the City Address 2022.
It took place at Bristol University’s Wills Memorial Building, on Wednesday, October 26. This year’s address was Mr Rees’s penultimate before leaving office, and the first since Bristol voters scrapped the mayoral role in a referendum.
