Bristol Traffic

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

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Ghost Bikes

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You cannot be too careful on a dark All Hallows' Eve when you drive home. Ensure that you look all around you, especially at the indus...
Monday, 14 October 2013

Surprise

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As more and more of the communist cycling brigade resort to personal CCTV to aid them in whining to the establishment, how can we protect o...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

The cyclists are building a surveillance state: a real one

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We have just discovered Richard Wellings, a comedian who pretends to be part of a think tank, IEA. This is funny: he's running a spoo...
Saturday, 12 October 2013

cyclelanes4cash: has the traffic department "gone rogue"?

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A subversive becoming known to us, Wheels on a bike, alerted us to this: cyclelanes4cash . A story he broke and which made the online cyclin...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

Stokes Croft: the marxists are coming for our pavements

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Britain is a capitalist country: it belongs to the people with money. We show that we in this group by driving cars. People who cycle they...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Stokes Croft: gentrification in action

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Stokes croft has always been built on a few key themes: driving, parking where you want, fast-food, paid sex and substance abuse. Yet  tho...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

The Stokes Croft Shared Space

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In one stretch of the croft, all lines have been painted out. It is oddly calm, especially now you can park where you like for as long as ...

Stokes Croft: its own beer -and a shocking new pub

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Today marks the start of the Bristol Beer Week , an event dedicated to showcasing some of the mind altering substances manufactured and sold...
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...
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