BRISTOL TRANSPORTATION |
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There are two principal railway stations in Bristol: Bristol Parkway and
Bristol Temple Meads. Bristol was never well served by suburban railways,
though the line to Avonmouth and Severn Beach survived the Beeching Axe and
is still in operation today, while the line to Portishead has recently
reopened to freight traffic. Long-standing plans for a light rail system in
the Bristol area have so far come to nothing.
The city is connected by road on an east-west axis from London to Wales by
the M4 motorway, and on a north-southwest axis from Birmingham to Exeter by
the M5 motorway. The M32 motorway is a spur from the M4 to the city centre.
The city is also served by its own airport, at Lulsgate, which has recently
seen substantial improvements to its runway, terminal and other facilities. |
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| Despite being hilly, Bristol is one of the prominent cycling cities of
England, and is home to the national cycle campaigning group Sustrans. It
has a number of urban cycle routes, as well as links to National Cycle
Network routes to Bath and London, to Gloucester and Wales, and to the
South-Western peninsula of England. |
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