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« Reply #75 on: October 14, 2021, 15:45:52 » |
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FoSBR» is told that work hasn't started yet at Portway Park and Ride station because of 'some additional delays' in getting GRIP5 (detailed design) completed.
Bristol City Council are now waiting for Network Rail to inform them when they will start on site. With an estimated 20 week build, the station 'should be complete by the end of March 2022'.
Sorry Team Reading Green Park, but I did say that Porkway Partway wouldn't give up their "longest time taken to open a railway station" lead easily! |
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« Reply #76 on: October 14, 2021, 23:15:49 » |
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The "pork" in the title is also a reference to the creatures we tend to see flying by whenever an opening date is mentioned - I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2010s  I am sure I recall the sitting council cabinet member with responsibility for transport at the time (about 2010) saying it would be up and running by 2013, at a total cost of £400,000, right after MetroBust started running and paying back the cost through the charges on bus companies using it. We've all passed a lot of water under the bridge since then. |
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« Reply #77 on: October 15, 2021, 11:03:38 » |
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« Reply #78 on: October 15, 2021, 12:04:03 » |
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« Reply #79 on: October 15, 2021, 17:27:19 » |
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I take it that's not a trick of a tail then!....
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« Reply #80 on: October 15, 2021, 17:49:11 » |
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I take it that's not a trick of a tail then!....
Or The Lamb Lies Down On Broadmead... |
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« Reply #81 on: October 19, 2021, 14:25:21 » |
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In the case of MetroBust, designed to overcome the problems of buses getting stuck in traffic, Proverbs 26:11 seems appropriate. |
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« Reply #82 on: October 19, 2021, 15:32:53 » |
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For some reason, a few lines from Act I, Scene III of The Merchant of Venice spring to mind...
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« Reply #83 on: October 19, 2021, 17:10:33 » |
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For some reason, a few lines from Act I, Scene III of The Merchant of Venice spring to mind...
Most kind. Antonio is indeed a good man. |
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« Reply #84 on: December 17, 2021, 16:29:36 » |
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Anyway enough of this gay banter: Starting on site at Portway Park and Ride
We have started clearing vegetation and setting up a site compound in preparation for the start of construction on a new railway station at Portway Park & Ride in the new year. We finish on site on 23 December and return on 4 January 2022.
The station is being built on behalf of Bristol City Council and West of England Combined Authority, as part of the MetroWest scheme.
It will link up Portway Park & Ride with a regular train service to Bristol Temple Meads, providing more options for travellers.
The new station is expected to be operational by Summer 2022.
Source: Network Rail, Bristol railway work update, December 2021 |
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« Reply #85 on: December 17, 2021, 17:04:11 » |
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Anyway enough of this gay banter: Starting on site at Portway Park and Ride
We have started clearing vegetation and setting up a site compound in preparation for the start of construction on a new railway station at Portway Park & Ride in the new year. We finish on site on 23 December and return on 4 January 2022.
The station is being built on behalf of Bristol City Council and West of England Combined Authority, as part of the MetroWest scheme.
It will link up Portway Park & Ride with a regular train service to Bristol Temple Meads, providing more options for travellers.
The new station is expected to be operational by Summer 2022.
Source: Network Rail, Bristol railway work update, December 2021 Hurrah, just as I beginning to find Father Christmas more believable than the notion of Portway ever opening! I shall raise a little glass to the news later. |
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« Reply #86 on: December 17, 2021, 18:07:41 » |
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Hurrah, just as I beginning to find Father Christmas more believable than the notion of Portway ever opening!
I shall raise a little glass to the news later.
I shall keep the bubbly on ice for now, although now that Network rail are involved, it does look more likely than not that it will happen. |
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« Reply #87 on: December 17, 2021, 18:36:25 » |
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Hurrah, just as I beginning to find Father Christmas more believable than the notion of Portway ever opening!
I shall raise a little glass to the news later.
I shall keep the bubbly on ice for now, although now that Network rail are involved, it does look more likely than not that it will happen. |
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« Reply #88 on: December 17, 2021, 20:58:52 » |
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With Red Squirrel's talk of "gay banter" I thought the station had been renamed, Portway Park and Pride.
But it will always be Porkway Partway in our hearts! Good news from Network Rail, whatever they call it.
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« Reply #89 on: January 10, 2022, 11:36:38 » |
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Some signs of activity here. A site compound has been established on the left (mostly out of shot!), and a blue track safety barrier has been erected alongside running line:  |
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