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Greater Bristol Metro scheme
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The Greater Bristol Metro scheme is a proposal to improve the rail services in Bristol, England, and the surrounding region first proposed at First Great Western's Stakeholder Event in March 2008. The aim of the project is to develop half hourly services through central Bristol which will also serve the surrounding West of England region. Transport campaigning group, Transport for Greater Bristol are actively supporting the proposal. Rail usage in the West of England has doubled in the 10 years to 2009 with existing services suffering from lack of capacity on trains leading to overcrowding and in some cases having to leave passengers behind on stations. The Greater Bristol Metro aims to ease this congestion and to attract people who currently use cars onto the railway. Additional aims of the scheme are to support housing and employment along the rail corridors between Weston-super-Mare to Yate, and Cardiff to Bath.<ref name="WestOfEngland:GreaterBristolMetro"/> See Also
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