Bristol Traffic

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

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Superminis are more considerate

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One nice aspect of the mini and supermini categories of cars is that they are narrower. they are easier to pass. Even when parked, they caus...

Spring approaches

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Spring is coming, making the streets lighter. This is making it easier to photograph cars on their evening journey home Even at 18:11, a pho...

Traffic Calming the suspension bridge

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Sunday morning is always good for a ride, be it an MTB one over in Ashton Court, or an on-road trip Portishead and then the coast road south...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Branding

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We can't come out and say "premium German-branded cars park worse". All we can say is "premium German-branded cars appear...
Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Team Psyclewerx

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Who is this small child holding a very fancy looking bike outside Psyclewerx? He is not just any small child, he is the bike shop's spon...
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Monday, 9 March 2009

Oregon's proposed bicycle tax

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The US state of Oregon has no sales tax; no VAT. It has federal income tax (your $ to the Iraq war), and state income tax (your $ to fund ot...
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St John's school, Clifton

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We've not visited this school since a sunny day in September, when were were surprised by how most of the kids were walking to school. ...
Sunday, 8 March 2009

The range rover competition

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We are still running our regular competition for sightings of legally parked range-rovers. Submissions to bristol.traffic at gmail dot com. ...
Saturday, 7 March 2009

More of the Portsmouth Seafront

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More on the Portsmouth Seafront, in a cycling town. This is the Eastern end of the area, Eastney. Formerly fairly navy-centric -the building...
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Friday, 6 March 2009

Invisible

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The back streets of Redland and Clifton can be rather dark at this time of year. At twenty past nine at night. Which makes them perfect for ...
Thursday, 5 March 2009

Quick Everybody!

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Quick. Whiteladies Road is no longer under surveillance... thanks to this parked removals lorry. The opportunities for penalty-free nefariou...

Signage

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In this city, it is important that bicycles know their place and follow the signs Here, on the downs by the Suspension Bridge, bicycles are ...

Mystery Chav Biker spotted

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Sorry about the quality of the photo, but I wasn't sure if it would come out at all. In the finest tradition of the Loch Ness monster, ...

Park-ons!

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The technical term for those snippets of pavement that stick out are build-outs , but that's an engineering term to describe what they d...
Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Ten Days that shook montpelier

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We've been tracking what's happening since the police ticketed cars for parking in Montpelier. The answer is: it's taken ten day...
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The source of all evil

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There are two 9pm+ TV series filmed in Bristol running right now, Mistresses and Being Human . Mistresses is set in Clifton and Redland; Pa...
Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Stoke's Croft back to normal

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We are pleased to announce that after the intervention of the new city regime, parking on Stokes croft is back to normal -only the bike lane...

Double Decker Parking

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Here we see an interesting image. Is the Subaru WJ51ZSY actually a 6x4? Or did there used to be another vehicle on top? Stolen, with just th...

Priorities

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The fiat X402EDB may appear to be endangering road users by blocking the exit of a downhill bike lane that corners into Woodland Road, on th...
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Monday, 2 March 2009

Stokes Croft Roadworks

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We are graced with new roadworks on Stokes Croft, removing the right turn from Jamaica Street, and the left turn from Stokes Croft to City R...
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