Bristol has been awarded additional funding from the UK government to upgrade and extend walking and cycling routes across the city. With Council funding included, a total of £19m has been allocated for projects from 2015 to 2018 in the Bristol area.
One of these routes is the Frome Greenway. We are working to improve the existing route section between Stoke Park and Frome Terrace. Improving facilities for pedestrians and cyclists along the Frome Greenway will help give communities in North East Bristol a better, healthier alternative for transport to get people to work or play all year round. We also want to provide an improved route along Blackberry Hill.
This will form part of a valuable link between the Frome Greenway and the Bristol-Bath Railway Path and help improve connections to housing, shops and the UWE Glenside Campus.
All the Cycle Ambition Fund projects are now completed in Bristol. This page serves as an archive of the work done.
This important section will connect the North Fringe into the existing Frome Greenway route (Frome Valley), and into Fishponds via the UWE Glenside Campus.The route consists of two elements:
The route connects UWE’s Frenchay and Glenside campuses with a single route which is either off-road or using quiet residential streets.
The Frome Greenway will give cyclists an off-road route along Broom Hill. Broom Hill is a busy road with a steep gradient, parking, and bus stops which create a number of hazards for cyclists.
The project includes:
The Glenside section connects into the on-road route and links directly into the Glenside Campus, and on towards Fishponds.
This section provides a scenic, off-road alternative to using adjacent Blackberry Hill, which is narrow in places and busy with traffic.
The Glenside route comprises a 3m wide shared path, through woodland and on the outskirts of the historic Glenside campus, which has a number of Grade II listed buildings.
New lighting will be installed along the route to ensure it is usable throughout the year.
Leaders across the West have welcomed greater investment through today’s Spending Review, with a record three-quarters of a billion pounds of transport funding confirmed for the West. That means better buses, more trains, and mass transit – with trams and much more on the table. The Treasury has also today confirmed plans to improve rail links between Bristol and Cardiff.
The second phase of a project - to reduce congestion, improve the reliability of buses, and promote active travel along a major transport route in Bristol - will get underway from Monday 16 June 2025.
That’s summer sorted. Children and young people under the age of 16 are set to be able to travel for free on buses across our region during the school holidays, thanks to new investment proposed by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.
Bristol’s first electrified bus depot was opened on 3 June 2025 by a government minister and the West of England’s new mayor.
Leaders across the region have today welcomed more than three-quarters of a billion pounds set to be invested in transport projects in the West. The Chancellor has announced plans to more than double investment in local transport in England’s city regions, committing to “investment in all parts of the country, not just a few.”
