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Muller Road proposals – How to make your views and suggestions known.

Muller Road proposals – How to make your views and suggestions known.

Bristol City Council have recently launched a public consultation on proposals to improve public transport routes and pedestrian safety along Muller Road. Full details of the online consultation can be found here.

The consultation is live until Sunday 7th April, I will be hosting a meeting on Saturday 30th March to pull together feedback from residents, community organisations and businesses to enable me to submit a formal response to the Council.

Please come along and have your say! Spaces at the event are limited, so please reserve your ticket here.

To connect with residents on transport issues, please join my Facebook group

You can read more about my work on transport here.

 

 

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Policy Pod 4: Votes at 16

At 16 you’re allowed to join the army and to get married. Should you be allowed to vote?

On Policy Pod 4 we discussed Votes at 16, and why this was allowed for the Scottish Independence referendum but not the Brexit one.

Policy Pods is Darren Jones’ podcast answering constituents’ policy questions. If you’re a constituent with a policy question, email it in to darren.jones.mp@parliament.uk with Policy Pods in the subject header and your postcode included in the email.

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Darren asks experts about electric vehicles and energy efficiency

In Science and Technology Committee Darren asked industry representatives about electric vehicles charging and energy efficiency.

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Council replies following Southmead walk around.

In November 2018, Darren Jones, MP for Bristol North West,  took part in a litter pick and estate inspection with local councillors Helen Godwin and Brenda Massey in the Twenty Acres area of Southmead. Following that meeting, as promised, Darren shared his concerns with the council’s head of service.

Darren has now received a reply from Bristol City Council:

Upon receipt of the response, Darren said:

“You may recall back in November, I attended an estate walk around and litter pick with local councillors on Twenty Acres in Southmead. I shared a number of concerns about how the estate was being maintained by the council shortly after my visit. It was clear many members of the Twenty Acres community feel unheard and forgotten. I have now received a reply from the council. I do urge local residents to report their concerns to the council and be sure to let Councillor Helen Godwin and Brenda Massey know the challenges you’re facing – they work hard for the local community and we all want to ensure resident’s voices are heard.”

 

 

 

 

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Darren joins Redmaids team at LEGO League Final

Bristol North West MP, Darren Jones recently joined an all-girl team from Redmaids School in Westbury on Trym at the UK’s first LEGO league final at UWE to celebrate their success on reaching the finals.

Darren said after the event:

“It was great to meet with the Redmaids School team at the national finals of the Lego League today, making it very clear that engineering, technology and coding is not just for the boys. Well done to everyone who reached this year’s final”.

 

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Darren meets Southmead Sudanese community

Bristol North West MP, Darren Jones recently met members of Southmead’s Sudanese community at the Greenway Café to discuss the on-going conflict in Sudan.

Darren said after their meeting:

“I was pleased to meet a number of Southmead constituents with Sudanese heritage to discuss the on-going violence in the country. We talked about what I can do to raise the profile of this often-invisible conflict in Westminster and share the plight of those living surrounded war, food shortages and human rights abuses including sexual violence.”.

 

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Darren calls for NHS workforce boost

In a debate in the House of Commons on the NHS long term plan, Darren highlighted the need for the NHS workforce to be large enough for the plan to be delivered.

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Darren receives update on 3 and 4 bus routes

Darren Jones, MP for Bristol North West, has shared additional updates on First Bus services that run from Cribbs through Henbury, Lawrence Weston, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Coombe Dingle and Stoke Bishop to the city centre.

Darren said:

” Whilst discussions of the proposed A4018 changes have been my focus, I have not forgotten about the other on-going transport challenges in Bristol North West. My team recently arranged for First Bus to attend the Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston Forum. After the meeting, First told us:

The reliability of service 3 and 4 is still challenging; but service changes planned for 28th April (bus service changes cannot take effect until after 70 days notification time) will see additional running time put into the schedule on Monday to Saturday which should improve punctuality and reliability. In addition, from the 28th April Monday to Friday additional journeys are being introduced between 14:30 and 16:00 to reflect customer demand; and help ease overcapacity.

Residents shared their desire for a direct link between Lawrence Weston and Southmead Hospital, the First rep has fed back these requests to their commercial department.

Residents also expressed concerns with the ‘Real Time Information’ (RTI) displays at bus stops and advised they were not working as they should. The First rep advised, bus stops and their associated infrastructure are the property of the council, and residents are encouraged to feedback these concerns directly. First have also agreed to share these concerns with the local authorities as there are known issues across the city. I do hope bus users start to see an improvement soon – I’ll be keeping a close eye on this over the coming months!”

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Darren calls for fully state funded childcare

Darren hosted a Westminster Hall debate so that Parliament could consider the costs and benefits of childcare which is free to parents and paid for by the state. In it he spoke for this policy.

You can watch Darren’s speech at the start of the debate and the rest of the debate afterwards here:

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Darren receives response to nursing letter

Darren received a response to a letter he wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care backing the Royal College of Nursing’s demand for £1 Bil of additional cash for nurse training. The response did not indicate plans to meet this demand.

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