Bristol Traffic

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

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Bicycles Harassing Drivers

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A recurrent theme in the Evening Post web site is how bicycles harass cars. Finally we have collected evidence of this, from our instrumente...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

BRI pedestrian access issues

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Following on the St Michael's Hospital anti-pedestrian improvements, we drive round to Alfred Road and the BRI. See that sign? No Acc...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Coronation Road Improvements

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We have a new contributor, "flytopia", who has some good news about the Coronation Road bike path. It's been made more dangero...
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Monday, 29 March 2010

Muller Road Bike Path: official council opening

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The Muller Road bike lane is almost ready for use, here on March 22. It's empty There is a bicycle, pointedly getting in the way of...

Cliftonwood RPZ news

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Victory for the keep-our-pavements-free-to-park on campaign, Cliftonwood's resident parking zone plans are killed. Vehicles like V305RO...
Sunday, 28 March 2010

Datamining the taxis on Union Street

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There's an NYT article on analysing GPS data feeds from taxis to build up a model of traffic flow and congestion .It's interesting ...
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Saturday, 27 March 2010

Progress by St Michaels Hospital

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Contributor "A" pointed us at Southwell Street, said we should check it out to see what had changed since our last visit . Oh...
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Friday, 26 March 2010

Dropped Kerb Parking Persecution

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Since March 1, the council has been promising it will make life harder for us, the city's tax payers, by ticketing our cars on dropped ...
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Thursday, 25 March 2010

Bicycles in the Bearpit

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We still pine for the days when the bearpit was the premier tourist and family destination in the city . That was why we were torn when...
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Impressions Count

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Want to really impress the girls? Probably best done at 23:30, wearing this: Yes. The owner of YH58YHU is apparently able to seriously impre...
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Sunday, 21 March 2010

Chris Hutt: died, march 2010

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Down at Zetland Road Last Month , we were comparing illnesses. Jon Rogers, has to nip down to the BRI with chest pains, one of our B.T repo...
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Saturday, 20 March 2010

A Failed Experiment?

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The editor of Bristol's favourite anti-cycling Daily Mail owned tabloid must be dismayed. An experimental attempt at increasing the len...

A4 flood chaos

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Here is a short video of what the portway looks like when it's underwater. As you can see, it merited live broadcast coverage from heart...
Friday, 19 March 2010

Monty's pavements

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If every vehicle length of Montpelier pavement has a 10% chance of being free, then the probability of a four vehicle length space being ent...
Thursday, 18 March 2010

The Muller Road disaster

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While some of the cycling troublemakers complain that the Cycling City money isn't having any effect, our complaint is that in the parts...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010

It's too late for bike parking or walking here -so add more car space

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hDown at the BRI, again. Nowhere to park the car. Again. First thought: the pavement at the entrance. But no, even the dropped kerb by ...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Dangerous and inconsiderate

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Some denunciations of random cyclists who got in the way of our drive across the city on a foggy day where they should have recognised the s...
Monday, 15 March 2010

Lives and Cost/benefit analysis

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Bristol lost three schoolkids last year in crashes. The anniversaries of the deaths of two will be next month, deaths that should not have h...
Sunday, 14 March 2010

Better to ban the cyclists

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Down in the van to pick up some post from Monty. Since the DVLA provided a prepaid envelope with a note "place your no longer valid dr...
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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Technical build-out work

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There's a van, SM51FVK, on a build out on York Gardens, Clifton, where the gardens join Royal York Crescent. Nothing unusual there. Ex...
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