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Tag: rapid transit

Photo of an M1 MetroBus vehicle at the Webbs Wood southbound stop in Bradley Stoke.
Saturday 4th January 2020 SH (Editor)

M1 MetroBus service changes from 5th January

Bus operator First West of England is making further changes to its MetroBus Bristol services from Sunday 5th January 2020, in particular the M1 MetroBus which links Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway and Bristol city centre. The company says the changes are designed to better reflect the pattern of customer demand across all hours of MetroBus service and improve reliability

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Photo of the very first timetabled M1 MetroBus to enter Bradley Stoke arriving at the Patchway Brook southbound stop.
Wednesday 27th November 2019 SH (Editor)

M1 MetroBus service frequency set for another downgrade from January

The operating frequency of the flagship M1 MetroBus service, which links Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway and Bristol city centre, looks set to be reduced for the second time in just over four months, the Journal can reveal. No formal announcement has yet been made by First West of England or its sub-contractor Bristol Community Transport, but the following brief

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Photo of an M1 MetroBus vehicle at the Webbs Wood southbound stop in Bradley Stoke.
Saturday 31st August 2019 SH (Editor)

M1 MetroBus off-peak frequency to be reduced from 1st September

The off-peak frequency of the M1 MetroBus service which runs between Cribbs Causeway, Bradley Stoke and Hengrove, via the city centre is to be reduced from 1st September due to low passenger numbers. Finally starting operations in January 2019, more than three years after major roadworks began in Bradley Stoke to create the necessary infrastructure for the route, the M1

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Photo of resurfacing work on Bradley Stoke Way in May 2019.
Thursday 30th May 2019 SH (Editor)

MetroBus contractor used wrong type of asphalt on Bradley Stoke Way

A new traffic lane on a main road through Bradley Stoke is having to be resurfaced less than three years after it was created due to substandard materials being used in its construction. What is now the southbound lane of Bradley Stoke Way between Patchway Brook Roundabout (near Aldi) and Savages Wood Roundabout (near the leisure centre) was created as

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Photo showing bus chaos on Bradley Stoke Way, in the vicinity of Webbs Wood Roundabout.
Friday 26th April 2019 SH (Editor)

MetroBus: Has the ‘no lay-bys’ policy backfired?

The introduction of new bus routes (T1 and M1 MetroBus) through Bradley Stoke has actually worsened traffic congestion rather than relieved it, claim a number of readers commenting on the Journal’s Facebook page. Responding to a reader who reported being held up by a convoy of three buses “halting at every stop” along Bradley Stoke Way to pick up or

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Photo of the very first timetabled M1 MetroBus to enter Bradley Stoke arriving at the Patchway Brook southbound stop.
Sunday 10th February 2019 SH (Editor)

M1 MetroBus: 15 months late, but finally running

North Bristol’s long-awaited M1 MetroBus service finally launched on Sunday 6th January, around 15 months later than originally planned and 39 months after the start of what eventually turned out to be more than two years of highly disruptive roadworks to construct new bus lanes along Bradley Stoke Way. The M1, the third and longest Bristol MetroBus route, connects Cribbs

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Photo of the upper section of the MetroBus iPoint at the Willow Brook southbound stop.
Friday 4th January 2019 SH (Editor)

MetroBus arrives but journey times disappoint

BSJ editor Stephen Horton comments: More than eight years after the Journal first reported on plans for a ‘bus rapid transit’ link between north Bristol and the city centre, it looks like we are finally at the point where services are about to begin. Looking at the timetable that was available as we went to print, the ‘every ten minutes’

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Photo showing a line of M1 MetroBus vehicles at the BCT depot in Bedminster.
Wednesday 2nd January 2019 SH (Editor)

M1 MetroBus service to start on 6th January

The M1 MetroBus service, the third and longest Bristol MetroBus route, connecting south Bristol, Bedminster, the city centre, UWE, Bradley Stoke and Cribbs Causeway, will launch on Sunday 6th January. Bristol Community Transport, who will be operating the M1 service under contract to First West of England, has invested in a fleet of new buses running on biogas generated from

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Photo of the upper section of the MetroBus iPoint at the Willow Brook southbound stop.
Sunday 9th December 2018 SH (Editor)

MetroBus installs last pieces of jigsaw prior to 6th January launch

The last remaining pieces of infrastructure for Bradley Stoke’s long-awaited M1 MetroBus service finally started to appear at stops along the route in mid-November, ahead of its planned launch on Sunday 6th January 2019. As we went to press, three of the new iPoints (combined information display and ticket machines) had been installed – at the Patchway Brook and Willow

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Lower rear inside panel of a Bristol MetroBus vehicle.
Tuesday 20th November 2018 SH (Editor)

MetroBus announces ‘Search for a Star’ initiative to showcase new M1 service

MetroBus is calling for local community groups to literally go on the road with it as the face of the new M1 service when it launches in January. The M1 is the third and longest MetroBus route, connecting south Bristol, the city centre, UWE, Bradley Stoke and Cribbs Causeway. As previously reported by the Journal, the service will be operated by

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