Bristol Traffic

In which we explore the options for getting round Bristol (*), and the consequences of those decisions. (*) Excluding Fishponds.

Friday, 4 July 2008

The Stokes Croft Parking Area

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Stokes Croft has a special parking area for the people visiting and using facilities in the People's Republic. To discourage bicycles fr...
Saturday, 28 June 2008

More buses on Cotham Brow

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People who complain that Bristol's public transport system is bad have missed an obvious fact: all vehicles are buses. Why else would al...
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Friday, 27 June 2008

Leading the way

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These cars are all driving the wrong way down the one way bit of Nugent Hill Why? Well, how else do you get from Kingsdown to Gloucester Roa...

Ghost Rider

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Ghost Rider: someone on a bike who has chosen a path of action for which the outcome may tangibly result in death. Here we see someone cutti...

Probably didn't see the sign

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Somewhere in Broadmead...

Lewin's Mead Parking Lane

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When a sufficiently large number of vehicles park in a bus lane it effectively becomes unviable. What about half-parking, which these cars a...

Volkswagen AG: we care

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VW do produce some low CO2 vehicles. Which they get lots of press for. A nice, friendly company that cares. But if you look at what they lik...

Considerate Parking

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By getting the whole of their Renault Scenic up on the pavement of whiteladies road, this driver avoids taking up much of the bike lane
Thursday, 26 June 2008

Buses Only on Cotham Brow

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Cotham Brow is closed for road works; they are slowly moving up the hill. Until completed, the road is closed to everything but buses. There...
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Zebra Crossings are for deliveries

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Zebra Crossing parking spaces are not just for shoppers, they are used by delivery vehicles. Here we see a pair of city-link vans, one on th...

Zebra Crossings are for short-stay parking

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Here in Bristol the legitimate parking spaces are all used up by residents and commuters, and the not-so-good spaces -corners, pavements- by...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Eastville Park Jumps

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Someone has been building a set of jumps and berms in Eastville Park. Given that there is a concrete wheel park only two miles away, it is ...

Picton Street Congestion

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This is why, even though white-vans are the hard-men of urban parking, down in Picton Street even they get as far onto the pavement as they ...
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Beware of Cyclists and Pedestrians

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Part of the 20M pound cycling city funding is going in to new safety signs to warn of cyclists and pedestrians. Here we see the first batch ...
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Emergency Services

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Casualty were out filming near the railway path today; some fictional incident involving firemen, police and, obviously ambulances Having ...
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Parking Lessons

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Its pretty easy to be dismissive of this learner driver, that is learning to park on the double yellow lines, but not the pavement. This is ...

Emergency Parking

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This was caught on the way to school this morning: a vehicle doing some emergency parking on the downs. Vehicle access to the downs is alway...
Monday, 23 June 2008

The parked BMW is providing a valuable safety service

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This black BMW on stokes croft may appear to be a classic example of a selfish car driver, more concerned with a short walk to their destina...

Making bike routes more interesting

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This van appears to be making it pretty tricky to negotiate the bike path between Springfield road and nine-tree hill (BTW, where are those ...

The art of Reverse Corner Parking

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There's a bit in the driving test where you have to reverse round a corner. Here's a variation. Reversing round a corner to park on ...
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