The West of England Councils are working together to produce a new transport plan for the area. 

Transport is an important issue, affecting everyone, and we want your views on it.

Our Plan sets out our transport related goals which aim to improve transport and our quality of life, and how we intend to achieve these goals between 2011 and 2026. Remember it is a long term plan covering the four councils area and is not about any individual transport projects.

If you want to read the full engagement draft of the Joint Local Transport Plan and make comments on one or more of the sections follow the link below. The plan will change before it is adopted by the councils - this is your chance to influence it.

The plan is divided into chapters and supplementary documents covering eight different areas - cycling, network management (roads), freight, parking, public transport, road safety, rural transport, smarter choices and walking.

Each chapter and each supplementary document can be read separately and we would welcome your comments on them. You may comment on any separate part of the draft - you may feel we have given too much weight to some aspects, and not considered others enough, you may like some parts, but not others. If you disagree with anything please let us know - but do try to give reasons and perhaps to suggest some other way we can manage the issue.

Over the next few years public spending is likley to significantly reduce, this will probably make achieving all of our ambitions unlikely - which aspects of the plan do you feel we should concentrate on, and which do you feel can wait until later?

Read the Joint Local Transport Plan and Supplementary Documents

Visit the Travel+ website to find out more about the first Joint Local Transport Plan and the intergrated transport vision for the area.

Our current plan

The four councils produced our first transport plan together in 2006.  This was the first phase of our vision. As a result we are currently delivering the£70 million Greater Bristol Bus Network; three major transport schemes have first phase approval for Government funding totalling £49 million for a package of improvments in Bath, £43 million for the Ashton Vale-Temple Meads rapid transit route and £11 million for a package of improvments in Weston-super-Mare.  In spring 2010 we submitted two more bids to Government for £47 million for the South Bristol Link, and £168 million for the North Fringe to Hengrove package.

The results of this questionnaire will help inform the policies and action plan of our new transport plan and will be published here in November 2010.

Our final Joint Transport Plan for 2011-2026 will be published in March 2011