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« Reply #1170 on: Today at 08:30:25 »
The location proposed in 2014 for Ashton Gate Station is about 500m closer to Parson St Jct that the old site, just south of Barons Close. All the details are here: https://travelwest.info/app/uploads/2020/05/MetroWest-Stations-Package-Ashton-Gate.pdf
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« Reply #1171 on: Today at 10:52:25 »
Quote from: chuffed on February 10, 2025, 19:02:41
Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin for the
rubber matted  Guided Bus Barry Cashway idea.....

I wouldn't be so sure of that.......

https://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/24927819.bus-service-makes-sense-expanding-portishead-rail/
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« Reply #1172 on: Today at 11:43:17 »
Mr Cash has never obviously travelled on the Translohr rubber tyred system of Clermont Ferrand. Not for the faint hearted or those of tender derrieres. I think that letter represents the last gasps of a dying enterprise.
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