Bristol Traffic

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

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Troy Atkinson update

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We've recently seen some more comments on our page covering the death of Troy Atkinson by a hit and run driver in April . It turns out t...
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Monday, 2 November 2009

Bristol's First Residents Parking Scheme

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There's two ways people use to preserve the parking in their street for the exclusive use of residents: (a) persuade the council to un...

Montpelier: A correction

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Last week we suggested that bicycles should be banned from the main Montpelier through route , Picton Street-York Road-Fairlawn road, instea...
Saturday, 31 October 2009

Save Double Parking!

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Following on our campaign against zebra crossin gs, we find ourselves forced to start new campaign "Save Double Parking!". The ant...
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Friday, 30 October 2009

Friday Brain Teaser (2)

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This Friday, a multiple choice question. 1 in 6 chance of getting it right. No prizes, just kudos. Does this photograph illustrate: A: the ...
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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Undercover Montpelier

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Again, we send our undercover cyclist and pedestrians into the city streets. Unlike in the Panorama documentary, we aren't going to make...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Progress on Prince Street Bridge

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Southville Parking posts us this lovely snap from this summer (Summer 2009 was a Tuesday in September, as you may recall), showing how part ...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Anti-car work at UWE

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The secret back car park of UWE, the one known only to an elite few, has been taken away. How? Double yellow lines! Fortunately, as th...
Monday, 26 October 2009

Secret Primark Parking

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A lot of people come to our sight looking for free Cabot Circus parking, but we haven't mentioned Primark yet, which is apparently so po...
Sunday, 25 October 2009

Bristol Traffic announces a campaign against zebra crossings

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A lot of people complain that all we ever do is take photos of cars parked badly and make fun of them. Well, we don't actually make fun ...

Protecting our children on Belmont Road

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Here in St Andrews, we can see that WR56WHV clearly has a selfless owner. Not only have they parked their shiny car across the exit from...
Saturday, 24 October 2009

Not on the zig-zags!

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The whole zig-zag parking area is trouble in our city. In theory: anyone parking there is wilfully endangering pedestrian lives. In practise...
Friday, 23 October 2009

BBC gets on message: bicycles are the problem

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We were really worried when the House of Commons Public Accounts Committe report on road safety came out -once we'd read the report . Ke...
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Thursday, 22 October 2009

Half-man Half-car

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Just moments after recording the appalling Jay Walking incident in Bristol's famous Gloucester Road, our roaming reporter managed to sn...
Wednesday, 21 October 2009

BMW - No Joy: GPS is a SPOF

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SPOF: Single Point of Failure. The failure modes of GPS are pretty fascinating, which is why you cannot trust it to get you home alive, not...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

This is not firstbus

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FirstBus would like to make clear that this footage of a bus failing to observe rights of way rules is not one of theirs. All th...
Monday, 19 October 2009

Not No-Entry, Slow-downs signs

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In our Friday Brain Teaser , some people commented on the no-entry signs at the entrance. These people need to get a newly-updated ...
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Sunday, 18 October 2009

Jay Walking

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I really have had enough. It's not just the cyclists on the pavement, now it's the pedestrians in the road! Look at this clown: appa...
Saturday, 17 October 2009

Shared use parking area

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It's nice to see that the Shared Use area is being used effectively on Cotham Road, now that term time is started. It can be used by par...
Friday, 16 October 2009

Friday Brain Teaser (1)

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The new entrance to the new Hartcliffe Education Campus. Or is it? In the first of an (occasional) series of brain stimulating posts we ask ...
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