Reading through the documents about the proposals for transport in the Greater Bristol area it seems the councils in the area have managed to illicit responses from less than 1,000 people.

The Greater Bristol Strategic Transport Study, which could see the M4 widened to EIGHT lanes right next to Bradley Stoke, and see a bypass built under the noses of our neighbours in Stoke Gifford, was released this week.

Since the study got under way last year the group conducting it heard from a pathetic 430 people via email and just 306 via post.

So, are the councils now going to use data from this select band of people as an excuse to start building over more greenbelt land, and at the same time driving more people in Bradley Stoke nuts than replied to the consultation in the first place!!

The report even admits that the population of the area that was involved in the consultation is 983,860. Less than 0.1% of that population’s response ended up in the report.