Bristol Traffic

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

Wednesday, 22 August 2018

20 mph: it's OK to support it if you have a fast car

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There are a few days left to tell BCC you support 20 mph and don't want the zones to be crippled for the benefit of firstbus and few an...
Tuesday, 21 August 2018

UBHT: our next email to the BRI PR team

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Two weeks, and silence from the PR company tasked with selling an eight storey car park in the central bristol "red zone" as a be...
Tuesday, 14 August 2018

20mph: get your opinions in or lose to FirstBus

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Bristol Council has a ongoing consultation on 20 mph limits. We are happy supporters for the 20 mph limit in Bristol, for various reasons...
Tuesday, 7 August 2018

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As the outreach on an eight-storey car park over staff parking, adjacent to the sole child's playground near Stokes Croft takes place w...
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

How much parking does the BRI have? 1.9 miles

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One aspect of the greenwash letter on the new BRI multi-storey car park was its claim that the current multi-storey transport hub only had 2...
Thursday, 19 July 2018

BRI: Staff parking matters more than the health of the children in its shadow

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A letter reaches in the Bearpit, which is not just the HQ of the Bristol Traffic, it is one of the few Bristol Parks and services managed gr...
Monday, 21 May 2018

Friday Quiz: turning or parking?

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Is this car GK06AUN, pictured one morning in Clifton (1) turning on the wrong side of the road (2) parked? The correct answer is: it ...
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Thursday, 17 May 2018

fuckwit RLJ at race speed

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People ask us: why no coverage of RLJ-ing cyclists? Well, we generally leave that to grumpy Havana Coffe Hamid, on account of his soundtrack...
Monday, 23 April 2018

BRI Helicopter Takeoff

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This happens fairly regularly these days: a helicopter landing and then taking off from the BRI helipad. This is just the first time we'...
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Thursday, 22 March 2018

The Uber Dev Team just Killed Someone

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A software development team at Uber just killed someone. The Uber AV killing is going to go down in software development as one of the ...
Friday, 2 March 2018

Bristol: Snow Day == Smug Day

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It was pretty chaotic night out there. On the one hand: almost no traffic. On the other, an Audi A3  trying to get up a slight gradient and ...
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Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Dear Redland-based driver of Audi YS12ZPX

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We've discussed before the concept of a "Redland Mum": a parent who is prepared to injure other road users in order to make su...
Friday, 23 February 2018

School runs, UK vs US

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This is a 2003 photo of a 14 month child about to be towed four miles to kindergarten. This is Corvallis, Oregon, a small US town where ap...
Monday, 12 February 2018

I say we dust off and nuke them from orbit

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The Alien series have gone from groundbreaking space-horror to a repetitive collection of cliches. They always start with the protagonist, R...
Friday, 19 January 2018

Fixie Riders: don't Slipstream Mountain Bikes

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It's January, and you can see who is out and about on their new fixie bike. This rear view video show our (expendable, tax-dodging) repo...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

A Death on Brook Road

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There's almost no coverage of Brook Road on this site, not because its out of our normal coverage area, but because nothing ever happens...
Friday, 22 December 2017

No Elon, Serial Killers Drive

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Elon Musk has been denouncing public transport. Clearly he too has tried in vain to get a FirstBus on a showcase bus route at Templemeads af...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

Breaking: cyclists using bridge intended to be cycled over

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Here is a video of someone trying to cycle from one side of the Avon to the other. You can see at the beginning of the video that they hav...
Wednesday, 29 November 2017

How does a big project fail? A day at a time

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Bristol now has a new museum, Aerospace Bristol , which contains a documentary of the growth of the North Fringe Military-Industrial Complex...
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Sunday, 5 November 2017

Volvo bug reports, issue #2; SMIDSY

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"Sorry Mate I Didn't See You", as uttered by driver to person they nearly just killed due to failure to properly observe/asse...
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