South East Wales and West Of England Business Rail Link

[grahame]

Fast and regular train services connecting South Wales, North Somerset and the inner residential areas of Bristol with the Patchway, Aztec West and Westgate business areas of North Bristol, and with Bristol Temple Meads for the City Centre and ongoing train connections to the rest of the UK.

Up to five trains an hour will serve a new station at Aztec West, a re-sited Pilning (Westgate) station, and the existing Patchway station allowing quick and easy rail travel between home and work.

Work will commence on the new and re-sited stations in January 2019, with services calling by December 2019. The budget for this project is £15 million - that's less that a fifteenth of the cost of Metrobus - and will be undertaken under JFDI (Just do it!) principles. "Cheap and cheerful" says Tom Plates, mayor of the West of England "I want this to come in on budget and be open well before I stand for re-election".

Well ... why not? http://www.sewweb.info

 

[The Planner]

That took a lot of effort for an April Fools, fair play.

 

[HowardGWR]

I am responding just to keep this up the top of the list, - until 1200 anyway!

 

[grahame]

I am responding just to keep this up the top of the list, - until 1200 anyway!

Thank you ... funny thing about this one though - perhaps it could actually work?

 

[Envoy]

xyzzy

 

[Sean Emmett]

I knew this was an April fool when I saw Marvyn Seer, Mayor of Bristol's purported quote. He actually said "Blimey, I'd better get my underground built PDQ".