Bristol’s Clean Air Zone cameras will be switched off on the busiest road in the zone if thousands of motorists are diverted off the M5 and have to drive into it, Bristol Live can reveal. Motorists won’t be liable for the charge or be fined if they enter the Clean Air Zone in Bristol because they’ve been diverted away from an incident on the M5 on the Avonmouth Bridge.
Bristol City Council has confirmed that the cameras at the entrances to the Clean Air Zone on the southbound side of the A4 Portway and on the downhill side of Bridge Valley Road, as well as the cameras clocking motorists entering the zone from North Somerset on the A370 Brunel Way, will be switched off in the event that the M5 Avonmouth Bridge is closed.
The A3029 Brunel Way from Ashton Gate to Hotwells over the Cumberland Basin is already Bristol’s busiest A-road, and its inclusion in the Clean Air Zone has been one of the more controversial elements of the zone project, which starts on Monday (November 28).
