Street BBQ at Cotham Porter Stores

Readers may expect us to complain that some people on foot were taking up valuable parking spaces. by having an in-street barbecue outside a pub. Not so
 

1. Cotham Porter Stores is a well known purvey of ciders at a very low price -£2.20 a pint at the right time of day.
2. There's enough space left to pull the van up and have a couple of pints or more before carrying on with the day's deliveries.

Rather than complain, we joined in.

More Salsa issues

In yesterday's article, in which we clearly demonstrated that Salsa bands were a greater problem than Zombies, we got heckled.

Art of the Possible said...

"Be it St Pauls ... or St Werburgh's."

Maybe I've been taking the same stuff as your Monotonix videoist, but these two film clips look like the same place to me.

That's OK. We celebrate dissent, though we do add your names and comments to a spreadsheet, just to make sure it stays within clearly defined limits -and that when you cross them we know how to find you. Just remember there's a monument at the top of St Michael's Hill to where protestant dissenters were burned alive in the time of Queen Mary I, and you'll know what we're thinking of when people start criticising us too much.

Reviewing the videos, yes, our IT minions had mistakenly put up two videos of St Werburgh's and none of St Pauls. To compensate, as well as beating them soundly, we made them put up some St Pauls photos and videos.

First, you can see how City Road -and hence our access to Rita's and Slix takeaways- is blocked by pedestrians who are completely ignoring any cross/don't cross signs. They should all be fined for this.

Next, you can see how drum bands cause as much a congestion problem as salsa dancers.

Again, a lack of respect for us, the motorist, shows.

Finally, shocking footage of police horses riding the wrong way up a a one way street.

Do they pay tax? Do they have insurance? Yet the pedestrians walk and the horseriders ride around our city as if it were made for them.

Montpelier without Cars

A few minutes after coming across a Kingsdown with cars, we we were shocked to discover St Andrews Road, Montpelier, had been completely closed to cars, so as to encourage walking and other non-tax-earning transport options.

This is dangerous, as it will fail to give small children the appropriate fear of city streets which they need to survive.

Still, it allows the locals to come out and talk to each other, and an opportunity to try walking on a newly uncovered pavement.

Although if you look at these people, they're just, well, sitting, as if waiting for a car to come past.

These living streets campaigners have to recognise, busier streets are more interesting.