Avon Ring Road

The campaign against the Avon Ring Road (stage 2) hangs in the balance. This road, due to become Bristol's M25, is the largest Local Authority road scheme in the country. The latest section destroys a disused railway line, a swathe of Siston Common, and would be built on top of a kilometre of Sustrans' premier cycleway - the Bristol & Bath Railway Path.

Campaign group, SCRAPPIT, has held back the road for almost four years with High Court legal challenges. But now site clearance contracts are due to be let in October. Parties and temporary camps have been held on the route of the road but any day now the chain saw gangs could move in on the beauty spots that lie in the path of this tarmac monster. Fresh campaigners and activists are needed now.

Contact: SCRAPPIT c/o 84 Colston Street, Bristol. KEBELE CAFE, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol.