Bristol Traffic

We've discussed before the concept of a "Redland Mum": a parent who is prepared to injure other road users in order to make su...

Last week we discussed a (flawed) stopping distance experiment , where we argued that you cannot stop from 18 mph to 0 in 6.5 metres, no mat...

It's term time in the city, a so the morning rush hour is worse, and we've seen the return of the mid-afternoon one, seen here. In...

Once every 18 months, the Spectator magazine covers Bristol with an article. This is something we residents we have on our "things to l...

You can spot a car when the driver is texting. Rather than pootle along with the car in front, they leave a gap, then, when they look up and...

Some people ask if a 20 mph speed limit is bringing the city to its knees. The answer is no: all you have to do is overtake any car driving ...

One aspect of the Cycling City program was the way they used Showcase Bus Routes as part of the plan as you can see, it means that o...

With years of data, Bristol Traffic can go back in time and look at problems before the RPZ was rolled out -and compare it with today. This ...

At last this blog appears to have been noticed. Not in Bristol, where the council still pretends to be cycle friendly, but by Surrey Count...

Following on our advice to pedestrians and cyclists, we have one more A lot people are still driving their small cars to school and work, ...

Just as we think pedestrians should stay at home , we think cyclists should question their journeys   they won't be cycling -they'...

we must denounce the people who have a two-child tagalong to tow their children to school   Not only does it start to make the children t...

The shocking thing about plebgate is not that a Tory MP called the police plebs, but that the police failed to arrest him while shouting ...

There's an article in the Independents aying "Helmet Cameras are useless and the police can't do anything with the videos"...

Driving our van around Bristol we've noticed that the biggest problem for school run mums is pesky cyclists jumping red lights and ridin...

No sooner had we issued a call for more low-quality pictures than one reaches our inbox from "M", showing how Colston's Prima...

"Camera Enforcement Vehicle". An odd term. It has a hint of Mad Max's "Interceptor", back in the days when Mel Gibs...

We've had this video for a while, but been keeping quiet about it. Why? because there is a limit of six months for charging anyone for a...

While looking for places where yellow lines can be removed from Clifton "for traffic calming", we say, with a knowing smirk, we ar...

Youtube referred us to this (nonembeddable) video of an eight year old doing the school run by bicycle from York Road to Colston Primary Sch...