I could have done with an e-scooter

AS a user of buses I can only support e-scooter users as they can move around Bristol quickly and with the minimum of inconvenience. I have to allow over an hour to get anywhere when I travel on the bus.

I have stood on the bus stop and seen e-scooter users sail pass quickly to their next stop or appointment. When I have had to attend the Central Health Clinic for an appointment it has taken me more than an hour to get there from Henleaze.

On one occasion I caught the bus from Westbury Road at 7.45am to attend the Central Health Clinic for a 9am appointment. When the bus arrived it was already packed with standing room only because of schoolchildren attending Bristol Grammar and Cathedral Schools.

When we arrived at the top of Blackboy Hill the bus was held up again for university students to get across the road to catch their bus.

When we got to the bottom of Blackboy Hill we had to wait again for 45 minutes because there were three buses trying to get into the bus stop to let passengers on and off the bus. When we got to Queens Road the traffic was reduced to a standstill because of university students coming down from Clifton and crossing Queens Road get to the University. Why aren’t there pedestrian lights at that roundabout?

I actually got to the Central Health Clinic for my appointment 25 minutes late.

What is needed is for the local railway lines to be reopened with new stations added as well as updating the existing ones to create a local integrated bus and railway network for people to take to get into Bristol.

The problem also is that Bristol does not have a ‘commuter centre’. Temple Meads is two miles from the centre of Bristol and the bus station. The Council should not have abandoned building a bus station next to Temple Meads as Mayor George Ferguson had proposed.

Now the site is yet another Student Accommodation building.

Why hasn’t the disused Grosvenor Hotel been demolished and a bus station built there to take travellers to other parts of Bristol?

Mrs A Earl, Bristol