Bristol Traffic

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

Sunday, 27 September 2015

"VW cheated —so we need 30 mph!"

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Someone called, entertainingly, Pointer2null , comments on one of our 20 mph posts and argues that: Because VW cheated its customers and...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

VW TDi rigging: —but why?

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The VW TDi rigging story is pretty serious; it's the third big automotive software disaster —and we haven't even covered disasters #...
Sunday, 30 August 2015

Bristol vs Self driving cars

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One little sighting over by our strategic PCSO-state partners, Google, are their self driving cars. They are utterly not-ready for Bristol...
Saturday, 29 August 2015

where are the speedo-watching crashes?

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Here are the two petitions to look at Speeders: Scrap the 20mph limit in Bristol and restore common sense   now at 8045 Keepers:  Keep ...
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Friday, 28 August 2015

Unhappy speeders

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In our ground breaking analysis of the geographic distribution of the speeders and the 20 milers in the city ,  we were picked up on for our...

Those pro-speed petitioners: do their opinions count? Not for 38% of them, no.

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We've stated repeatedly we are Bristol's premier data-driven transport new outlet, compared with the evening post, which is driven b...
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Monday, 24 August 2015

The 20 mph war on our council web site

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There's now a battle of petitions up on the council web site The scrappers: , " scrap the 20 mph limit and restore common sense...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

Traffic Cameras: they don't shoot black americans

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One of the recurrent themes in the UK press, with the Daily Mail-esque "Speed Cameras steal from motorists" story also recurring i...

Visiting our strategic partners in Mountain View, California

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We've stated before: with our strategic partners Google and Facebook we are building a PCSO state, one where people pay month for the pr...
Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Cyclists please dimount

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We don't know what dimounting is, but given the incident near Bristol where a woman crashed her car while playing with an entertainment...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Daylight running lights: the helmets of cars

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It's been mandatory since 2011 for cars to have daylight running lights ("DRLs"). Is this a good thing? Or just it just up th...
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Thursday, 25 June 2015

RPZ comes to Monty: Oh the Inhumanity!

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First they came to Kingsdown, and everyone celebrated. Then they came to Cotham, and nobody complained Then they came to Redland, and th...
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Thursday, 11 June 2015

HD06NZY texting school runner

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You can spot a car when the driver is texting. Rather than pootle along with the car in front, they leave a gap, then, when they look up and...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Leigh Woods: nicer cars, more polite twats

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One of our Bristol Traffic expendable tax-dodging reports was tasked to head over to Leigh Woods on a weekday morning, to see what all the f...
Monday, 25 May 2015

101 uses for a nearly dead Ginkgo tree

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We've noticed 4X4 drivers often have to deal with the problem of street trees when they park off-road in Bristol. Even in RPZs. Even in...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Who to vote for? Some of the above

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As Bristol's premier data science organisation —and one of the few press outlets people trust— people ask us: who should we vote for? ...
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Sunday, 3 May 2015

The Zone map that Clifton Tank Command Dare Not Show

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Of all the maps that appear in the RPZ tank-battles, this is one that does not surface. Its the map of where the air pollution levels in...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

MTB trail: "The Corrie Road"

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We've not done much coverage of the mountain bike trails in the area for a while, trails such as Nova, Super Nova of Ashton Court, along...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Our letter to @BristolPost

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We've just sent a letter to the evening post. We encourage others to do likewise. This was not sent to the letters@ address -it was sent...

Evening Post: not funny at all

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The Bristol Post has an April 1st story, Cyclists to escort all lorries through Bristol city centre in bid to reduce speed and improve safet...
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