Bristol Traffic

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

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Van in disguise

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An important piece of advice to van drivers who wish to demonstrate their rightful place on the road is that it is sometimes necessary to do...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Peter Abraham: show us the 20 mph road rage data

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One goal of Bristol Traffic is to create datasets on how people get round bristol. It had been to create a  ubiquitous mass surveillance pol...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

Anything Clifton can do, Stokes Croft can do better

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Our Whiteladies road texting coverage shows that 1 car per traffic light cycle is on the phone. Well, if that's clifton and the commuter...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Does car parking encourage local shopping?

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One of the "Pickles war on the war on motorists" issues is that the lack of free parking is destroying the high street. An interes...
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Monday, 16 September 2013

Whiteladies Road Texting: DG54DFV joins the dataset

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Last week's Suspension Bridge visit showed that only 1 car in 100 in that traffic jam was texting. Maybe our Whiteladies Road "one ...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

Reminder: We are a data driven organisation that understands how things work

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Some people -mistakenly consider us to be some kind of spoof, whereas in fact we are a documentary that has built up a weakly-defensible dat...

The Downs Committee joins the Bikelash!

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Attached to Clifton are "the downs". You can recognise it by the way that all paths on the park have a big "No Cycling" ...
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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Better texting data: only 1 driver in 100 does it

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Our morning surveys show that about 1 in 5 drivers stopped at a light is texing or phoning. Pretty damning -but there could be selection bia...
Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Archaeologists seek the fabled "lost cycle lane of Stokes Croft"

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It's long been claimed that there is a pre-roman era cycle lane on Stokes Croft, hidden under the parked cars. We now have a video of...
Thursday, 22 August 2013

Suspension Bridge response: these are not the build-outs you are looking for

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A few of our cycling-troublemakers objected to the build-out at the junction with Observatory Road, on  the basis this would increase car/bi...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Suspension Bridge: Council to objectors: go away

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Here then, as promised, is the council's response. The council cycling QA team reviewed it -and didn't object. Therefore there ...
Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Suspension Bridge, objection #3

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Another objection we saw, an other naive fool expecting that their input would actually be read, let along act on it. For now, cherish the e...
Monday, 19 August 2013

Suspension Bridge: objection #2

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We've now got in our hands the response from the council to the suspension bridge anti-cycling proposal [ 1 , 2 ], so we know what it is...
Thursday, 8 August 2013

Call of the Gromit

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The Gromits are across the city, and finally we have reason to visit the otherwise boring parts of the city -here, Clifton.   This is at t...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Whiteladies Road Cycle Path: not dead, sleeping -says the council

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The whiteladies road uphill path, the one covered over by a build-out for a new pedestrian crossing is not apparently, dead, merely sleeping...

Suspension Bridge: last day to get your responses in

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This is the last day to get some feedback in to the Suspension Bridge Proposal ,  -the council page has the details . The BBC also covers ...
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