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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41152221A £2.5bn "mass transit" underground for Bristol has moved a step closer.
Elected mayor Marvin Rees said the city needs a "three dimensional solution" to its transport problems using "underground and over-ground" routes.
The council has commissioned a £50,000 study to determine if it is financially viable.
Mr Rees is also looking to bid for £3m to examine rock samples to look at how the project could work practically.
That money, from the West of England Combined Authority (Weca), would include looking at existing tunnels under the city.
The planned line would connect the city's airport and Temple Meads railway station linking on to the Cribbs Causeway shopping centre.
It's a distant prospect for now, but Bristol is a city that just keeps growing and its already filling up with more cars than it can handle. Will this system be needed after the "Metrobus" scheme is finished? It would be nice to see Bristol get a mass transit system as so far to get from Temple Meads station to, say, Cribbs Causeway you have to take an hour long bus journey, lots of which is stuck in traffic in the city centre. Whilst you can take a train to closer stations it is usually a fair walking distance after, although with the rise of online shopping who knows the fate of the out of town complexes? All these questions do seem to conflict on whether Bristol actually needs a metro style system.