Could this currently overgrown, neglected bridge become a key sustainable transport facility between Easton and Redland, connecting neighbourhoods that the M32 has long divided?

Josh Hart, long friend of Chooseday, has come up with an idea. Radical thinker that he is, he is proposing using the existing local rail tracks as pedestrian and cycle routes as well. Josh says

“Imagine being able to ride from Whiteladies Rd. in Clifton through Redland, across the famous Gloucester Rd. arches, through Montpelier, St. Werburgh’s, gliding safely across the M32, through Easton and it’s incredible new Eastside Roots Community Garden Centre, and finally arriving at Temple Meads station, without leaving a flat paved pathway, safely separated from the passenger rail line by a fence.”

Several people think this is a really interesting idea and wonder why no one has thought of it before.

For more on Josh’s proposal see Bristol cycle Expressway