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A new resource has been launched to help Disabled people navigate Bristol’s transport system more easily. Getting Around Bristol: A Guide for Disabled People, written by Florence Grieve (she/her), Inclusive Transport Advocate with Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership and Sustrans, is a practical and accessible guide full of up-to-date information and helpful tips.
📥 Download the Guide Here (PDF)
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The guide offers practical advice on every stage of a journey — from planning, booking and accessing services to reporting issues or finding assistance. It includes:
Journey planner tools and accessible travel apps
How to book and use the WESTlink bus service
Information about cycling schemes, train station access and assistance
Details on bus and railcards, travel discounts, and taster tickets
Advice on reporting broken pavements, inaccessible stops and hate crime
Lists of local and national organisations offering transport-related support
While comprehensive, the guide doesn’t claim to fix the wider, structural barriers that prevent many Disabled people from moving freely around the city. In her introduction, Florence Grieve acknowledges that although the guide will hopefully be useful, it cannot dismantle those larger access issues alone.
This guide was created through the Climate and Disability Programme, part of the wider Community Climate Action Project coordinated by Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership. It responds to the urgent need to include Disabled people’s voices and access needs within climate action and sustainable transport planning.
It also connects with the Inclusive Transport Vision for Bristol, a bold statement of what could be achieved if accessibility and sustainability were fully integrated. That vision is about more than tweaks — it imagines a city where transport systems are built around inclusion from the start.
🔗 Read the Inclusive Transport Vision (Easy Read and Plain Text versions available there)
Access to transport is access to life. Without it, Disabled people are routinely excluded from work, healthcare, education, community life and joy.
This guide provides vital information for the here and now — while also serving as a reminder of the longer journey still needed to create a city where all of us can move safely, affordably and with dignity.
