Bristol City Council is asking people who live near or travel on four walking, wheeling, and cycling routes in Bristol to consider proposals to make them safer and more accessible.

The routes being considered are:

• Deanery Road
• Filwood Quietway
• Malago Greenway
• Old Market Quietway

Proposed improvements include segregated cycle paths, upgraded or new crossings, upgraded junctions, public realm improvements, and better signposting along the routes.

We are looking to improve these four walking, wheeling, and cycling routes to help promote healthy travel choices, reduce harmful emissions and create safer environments for people to travel actively across the city.

Work on these routes follows on from our pedestrianisation projects at Cotham Hill, Princess Victoria Street and Old City, as well as recent improvements to Bristol Bridge to make walking and cycling much easier. Meanwhile, we provide bike trials and cycle training – available free to eligible residents.

Work on these routes follows on from our pedestrianisation projects at Cotham Hill, Princess Victoria Street and Old City, as well as recent improvements to Bristol Bridge to make walking and cycling much easier, along with other projects across the city, such as the Old Market Gap, Park Row and Victoria Street, that look to boost active travel.

We now need to hear what residents and commuters think about our initial proposals. Our long-term aim is to encourage greater use of these handy routes, so many more people feel empowered to walk, wheel and cycle. This will help us to meet our environmental goals, while connecting people to education, employment, retail and leisure as well as to their family and friends

Councillor Don Alexander, Cabinet Member for Transport

The responses collected will help to inform which proposals are taken forward. Additional technical work will be completed in the spring, followed by more detailed designs, for which further funding would need to be sought.

The following drop-in sessions to find out more information about the proposals will take place:

• Malago Greenway: Thursday 29 February from 10am to 2pm at Knowle West Health Centre
• Old Market Quietway: Friday 1 March from 10am to 2pm at Trinity Community Arts
• Filwood Quietway: Wednesday 6 March from 12.30pm to 4.30pm at The Park Centre
• Deanery Road: Tuesday 12 March from 10am to 2pm at Central Library

This phase of the project is being funded by tranche four of the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund, administered by the West of England Combined Authority.

To find out more and give your views, visit Ask Bristol by midnight, Sunday 17 March 2024.

Notes to editors

The four routes:

• Deanery Road goes from College Green along Deanery Road to Hotwell Road
• The Filwood Quietway proposals focus on a section of the route along Wedmore Vale between its junctions with Weymouth Road and Daventry Road
• Malago Greenway begins at Cotswold Road and finishes at its junction with Hartcliffe Way

Old Market Quietway is a route between St Matthias Park and Lawrence Hill roundabout

Free active travel support for Bristol residents includes:

• one month bike and e-bike trials 
• adult cycle training

Original press release by Bristol City Council.