We have heard time and again that Bristol needs better transport. We were delighted to support the Bristol Climate and Nature Partnership to develop a Bristol Transport Vision based on Community Climate Action Plans.

Transport is a significant challenge faced by Bristol. It is a top issue in public opinion surveys on climate action, and and an area where progress in terms of reducing emissions has been challenging.

We supported Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership’s Community Climate Action project to articulate their transport priorities in the form of a citywide Transport Vision. This built on Emilia’s previous work developing WESTACT’s manifesto.

The community climate action project partners know that transport is a big issue for their communities. Again and again community organisations share stories of young people whose life chances are impacted by long, unreliable bus journeys across town to attend college courses, wages sacrificed on taxis to avoid losing jobs because the bus was repeatedly late or didn’t turn up, and the independence of older people being limited because they couldn’t get out and about due to unsafe pavements and inaccessible transport options. This is a transport vision with a difference: ordinary people of Bristol are at the heart of it. It is a transport vision that includes the day-to-day experiences of parents, Disabled people, shift workers, tradespeople and carers.
— Bristol Transport Vision

Praxis supported the development of the transport vision through co-designing and facilitating workshops with expert and lived experience stakeholders from across the city, collaborating with the community partners to draw out the transport priorities in their community climate action plans, and bring them together into a citywide plan. The full report also connects to the lineage of previous sustainable transport plans for the city, and the recommendations from Bristol’s citizens assembly.

The Community Climate Action Project is funded by the National Lottery’s Community Fund and co-ordinated by Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership.