An ambitious plan to turn an empty old railway line into a cycle path through South Bristol is set to be turned down by council chiefs - because they want to use it for a ‘multi-modal solution’ to Brislington’s traffic nightmare.
Bristol City Council chiefs said they don’t want to let cyclists and pedestrians use the ‘Tramway’ - the old railway line through Brislington that hasn’t been used for almost 60 years - because they have their own plans for it.
Precisely what the council’s own plans are for the old railway line are unclear, but despite Mayor Marvin Rees stating as part of his election campaign that it wouldn’t be used as a bypass road for traffic, and despite cabinet member Craig Cheney announcing in November last year that there were 'no plans to build a road' on the old railway line, that appears to be still on the table.
