Bristol Traffic

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

Monday, 24 June 2013

How an RPZ is good for retail businesses

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Further up the A38 from Stokes Croft is Gloucester Road, where the local shopkeepers are up in arms about how an RPZ will hurt their busines...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Is Rita's trying to go upmarket?

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Rita's has some new paintwork -maybe it is trying to look more sophisticated and appeal to a broader audience than minicab drivers. ...
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Saturday, 22 June 2013

A Community RPZ? In Montpelier? As if.

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In Montpelier today, Jon "ex-cllr" rogers is having some meetings proposing some community RPZ as opposed to an official one. Wh...
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Thursday, 20 June 2013

The Arley Hill Contraflow

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In our coverage of Cotham Brow yesterday , one Colin Hounslow, ‏ @crusherdrive , who appears to be an HGV driver @bristoltraffic noticed t...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Cotham Brow Row XM08XMJ

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The tax-dodger's rights group, Bristol Cycling Campaign, are campaigning against pinch points . We actually agree with them. Yes, we d...
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Saturday, 15 June 2013

Ant- RPZ myth: the paint makes a street look ugly

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If there is one anti-RPZ story we want everyone to avoid, it is "they make the streets look ugly" Look at this street in the Cot...
Friday, 14 June 2013

Anti-RPZ myth: an RPZ makes the school run harder

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With years of data, Bristol Traffic can go back in time and look at problems before the RPZ was rolled out -and compare it with today. This ...
Monday, 10 June 2013

RPZ myth: the RPZ devalues your home

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One of the funniest "residents parking ... " claims is that being in an RPZ devalues your house. As noted before, the RPZ lets y...
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Sunday, 9 June 2013

anti-RPZ myth: "no guarantee of parking"

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The other "say no to RPZ" myth is: there's no guarantee of parking even within an RPZ . Maybe, but here is Nugent Hill, and ...
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Saturday, 8 June 2013

RPZ: you aren't paying to park -you are buying the option to drive

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One recurrent theme repeated by the anti-RPZ people is that you will be "paying to park". These people are missing the point so ...
Friday, 7 June 2013

We support the RPZ plans for our business driving.

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A lot of claims are made about the "cost" of traffic jams, pricing driver's time above that of pedestrians and cyclists. While...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

Bristol doesn't have a congestion problem -it has a firstbus problem

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In April Tom-tom published a report saying Bristol had the worst congestion in the UK mainland . As Bristol's premiere traffic data c...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Tax the cyclists for the sake of the important residents of Abbots Leigh

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There' s a big row going on -no, not the RPZ. Toll increases on the Clifton Suspension Bridge: from 50p to £1 This bridge has an essen...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

TV documentary? That's like youtube with adverts, right?

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A comment that wasn't interesting enough to hit the publish button on from early February My name is Prashan and I work for RDF televi...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

BRI dropoff zone -working well for Brunel Flooring Limited

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Time to nip over to the BRI to see how the dropoff/bus only zone is working. There's someone being helped into an hospital car; the on...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Traffic lights on roundabouts, cyclists and tinted windows

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Bristol Traffic does have a twitter account, which rarely gets used for the following reason "to spend time on twitter is to waste an i...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

Not Smart?

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Smart cars are cool. We like them because they're easy to park, and only take up half the space of the Bristol Traffic White Van. So why...
Saturday, 20 April 2013

Room for Manouevre

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Very often people who park their vehicles in mandatory bike lanes are accused of being lazy, selfish and of endangering and inconveniencing ...
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Thursday, 4 April 2013

Moon Street: secret parking near Cabot Circus and Primark

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We regularly get emails saying "where are the best pavements to park on near Cabot Circus and Primark" We're going to point ...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Again, Persecution

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Up at the top of St Michael's Hill, the BRI Physio department now has a stock plastic covered warning note to put in car windscreens -he...
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