Our Future Transport

The four sub-regional authorities have taken a major step towards tackling the region's congestion challenges with the submission of Our Future Transport to the Department for Transport (DfT) in October 2007. The document represents the first stage of a process that sees the four West of England authorities - Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire - uniting to express continued interest in developing a bid for a slice of the Government's £1.4bn Transport Innovation Fund (TIF).

Our Future Transport looks at the traffic problems facing the area and highlights the various measures being considered to tackle them and provide significant improvements to public transport and the road network. Proposed measures include; new Rapid Transit routes featuring partially segregated bus lanes to provide fast and reliable journey times; improvements to rail services including extra carriages on existing services; additional rail services; the reopening of rail lines, new stations and improved facilities at existing stations. See a map of the Travel+ Transport programme

The document also lays out initial proposals for a possible funding application from the Government's Transport Innovation Fund.

Read Our Future Transport  - the vision for transport in the future.

All these schemes are part of the Travel+ package of work aiming to tackle congestion, encourage the use of sustainable transport, improve the reliability of public transport, improve air quality, and our lives generally across the whole of the West of England.