{"id":3403,"date":"2023-11-15T02:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-3\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:29:26","slug":"temple-meads-what-it-needs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Meads – What It Needs (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Really Big Scheme<\/span><\/p>\n Immediately to the south of the Uni site is an area now called Temple Island.<\/p>\n It already has a brand new access bridge, closed and leading nowhere (above picture upper right) …<\/p>\n … named Brocks Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n … with the whole area badly disfigured with graffiti.<\/p><\/div>\n fbb doesn’t think it ever was an Island!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Round the back there is a mysterious archway …<\/p>\n … and fbb (who may be deluded by old age) THINKS he can remember coaches to Bristol Airport picking up their passengers from here directly accessed from the station footway tunnel.<\/p><\/div>\n The new extrance is planned (?) for here …<\/p>\n … somewhere round the back of Quick Fit.<\/p>\n The artists’ impression of this “new entrance” …<\/p>\n … looks like it is a footpath leading to the existing main entrance. Here is a Google Earth view for context.<\/p>\n Spot the main overall roof in both illustrations.<\/p>\n These developments are big and spectacular BUT, the grand plan is much bigger.<\/p>\n It is proposed for the Temple Quarter to annex St Philips Marsh, a name familiar to elderly rail enthusiasts.<\/p>\n Hmmm …<\/p><\/div>\n … without giving any details.<\/p><\/div>\n … a “new bus interchange” which appears to be located here …<\/p>\n … between the red brick building and Brunel’s train shed. It would, perforce, involve snaffling a chunk of the current station car park.<\/p><\/div>\n And do the bus operators know that they are to be banished from Station Approach (terminating services) and possibly from the stops on Temple Gate in favour of the new “interchange” (round the back) and the stops at the southern entrance (further away<\/span>)?<\/p><\/div>\n