Many local MPs, businesses owners and locals in the city have called the Green Party to scrap their fifteen million pound plan to close Park Street to cars and vans and replace it With a 24 hour bus lane.
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00:00Conservatives are demanding that the £15m plans to close Park Street to cars and vans
00:08should be abandoned. Greenlab Bristol City Council announced in January that a 24-hour
00:14bus gate would be installed at the top of the road where it meets Park Row at Clifton
00:20Triangle and a bus lane to run from the centre. Local businesses have formed a campaign group
00:26called Save Park Street and launched a petition calling on the proposals to be scrapped.
00:34The local businesses have stressed that it would kill the trade in the area and that
00:39they would have no choice but to close up and move away as it would ultimately cause
00:44less footfall in the area and significantly reduce business. Greens say that plans which
00:51could include segregated cycleways, wider pavements and changes to the road layout
00:57will ease traffic congestion and make bus services from White Ladies Road more punctual
01:03and that it will also be better for pedestrians. But now, Clare John Groundland Conservative
01:10Stoke Bishop has tabled a motion to full councils on Tuesday March 11th calling on the administration
01:17to think again. He said that the scheme, part of the major upgrades of the A37, aimed
01:24at improving times for travel and creating new and inviting public spaces, would be a
01:30disaster because it effectively closed one of the main routes from North Bristol into
01:35the city's centre, including access to the Cathedral, Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel and
01:41College Street car park.