Portishead Line reopening for passengers - ongoing discussion

[whole diary]

[Red Squirrel]

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

[johnneyw]

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/

[chuffed]

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.

[Red Squirrel]

Yes, the content of Barry Cash’s letter is quite similar to his response to the DCO^▸ (Driver Controlled Operation). I’ve tried to establish how big the membership of his Portishead Busway Campaign is, but as far as I can tell it’s just Barry.

I believe he lives in Bishopston, Bristol. So why he has devoted so much time and effort to try and deny Portishead it’s railway defeats me.

He recently had a letter published in a local freebie maligning the new station at Ashley Down (which is at least somewhere near where he lives!) so we can expect more of the same from him as MetroWest develops. For editors, he’s an easy go-to guy for the anti-rail angle.

[TonyK]

A slack day at the letters desk at the North Somerset Times then. Some will just never admit that they have lost the argument, do they? I doubt that any of his protests or submissions were taken at all seriously, but he really needs to concentrate on the day job. That circus needs its clown fully focused.