Bristol Traffic

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

Monday, 28 December 2015

DfT: Number of cyclists on M32 still zero

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If you go into a bike shop you can pick up a freebie map of where to cycle in the city —one that's actually good for walking and running...
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Sunday, 27 December 2015

Press, politicians and 100 year floods

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This post covers basic probability theory. The media and the politicians seem to be completely confused by the concept of flood frequency...
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Saturday, 21 November 2015

BRS: Lessons from PDX

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The Bristol Traffic team has actually been on a council-funded trip round the world to see what ideas we could adopt in the city to make it ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

The new Mass Surveillance State bill

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Taking a break from traffic issues, we should note that Bristol Traffic team  has long admitted to building a mass surveillance police state...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Governments have the most interesting data. Today: MOTs

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There's a new web site.  mot-history.net , which lets you type in any registration and make of a car and get its entire MOT history. Exc...
Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Bristol's 2015 Bike Survey. If its so wonderful, why do twats swear at you for cycling?

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Sustrans have just published a 2015 survey on use and opinions on cycling in Bristol . This is available as a PDF for anyone who still prin...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Autonomous vehicles: Google are the new British Leyland

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After spending a month with our strategic partners in a privatised-PCSO state, you soon get fairly used to the sight of Google autonomous ca...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

The spectator discovers sectarian Bristol

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Once every 18 months, the Spectator magazine covers Bristol with an article. This is something we residents we have on our "things to l...
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...
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