Kingsdown RPZ trouble.

Lots of fun following the Kingsdown RPZ plans. Apparently the local councillor is getting lots of hate mail. We think he should be grateful for the publicity, and considering how much grief his colleagues got on the Sainsbury's Ashton Gate proposal, be glad it's not death threats.

Anyway, the plans are going ahead. Some places may be removed as parking options. Even before the zone is rolled out, someone is ticketing cars parked on non-double-yellow lined pavements, such as here on Spring Hill. Now, this is a narrow road, and with the steps on the pavement either end it's hard to negotiate when there is a car in the way, but this is the summer holidays. The kids are out. This is a lovely bit of traffic calming, yet T198NEF gets to pay a parking ticket, for parking in a way that wouldn't raise an eyebrow in Monty, except the distance from the wall, the two wing mirrors and overall bodywork state would say "outsider". Here on a weekday in Kingsdown, it says "resident".

This is where we differ in our opinions from the No Group. They say "everything just about works, keep parking free". But does it work?  Because it doesn't take that many tickets on your car to justify the cost of a residents permit. So parking isn't really free, is it. It's only free if you don't get caught. That's like saying driving round is free because you don't need a tax or MOT. Yet those DVLA cameras watching us, watching the entries to the city, driving round the back street, find us, eventually. 

Persecution and voting in Kingsdown

Not just a threatening note by an angry a neighbour, but a genuine police ticket, here off Somerset Street, Kingsdown.

To the owner for L630 UVC

This is not a parking lot! you are blocking a public right of way. Please do NOT park here again

By Montpelier standards, it's hardly noticeable. Interesting how different parts of the city have different conventions.

This is Kingsdown, an area which may or may not have voted for a Resident Parking Zone.  Charlie Bolton says the vote came in at 200 against, 203 for,  though it appears to depend on where you put the boundary -presumably this area, "Darkest Kingsdown", is the bit that came in for it. Bristol 24x7 has some different numbers, ones that put the turnout at 18%.

For those people who didn't get invited to vote, it was by paper or online, every household got one vote with a specific login/password to prevent outsiders voting, or insiders voting more than once. An 18% turnout has to reflect pretty badly on both sides ability to get the voters out.

Cliftonwood: strongly against. Perhaps the parking problems there are due more to residents than commuters, and they felt that restricting their own vehicle ownership and use was unwise.

Schoolkid build-outs for Colston Primary School

This area round Colston Primary school has a double role. It's commuter parking par-excellence, and its somewhere for parents to drive their kids to school, either here or Cotham School slightly up the hill. Anyone doing the school-run there knows that Cotham Park North is the turnoff to take.

Yet now, we see buildouts going in, buildouts with bollards planned. This is the price of having the city's Councillor for Walking the locally elected representative.

There was a perfectly good "switch off your engines while waiting" sign up by the school-keep-clear dropoff zone, and now what? More lines, more signs, more bollards

For the parents, the one redeeming feature is that the final draft resident parking zones are up, and this road is in it. If there is only one resident parked here on a Saturday, we can assume that if commuters cannot park here on a weekday, there will be plenty of space for short-stay dropoffs.

Indeed, we suspect the anti-schoolrun developments at Colston's are primarily to push all those parents in favour of resident parking, to split the drivers up into residents, commuters and school-runners, so stop us unifying against an anti car council.

Cyclists interfering with residents parking

More breaking news, the local cycling campaign is getting involved in the Kingsdown Resident Parking Proposals.

Look at their ten page document!


Not only do they support this plan, they have recommendations which shock us

1. Parking must remain restricted on Nine Tree Hill -to do otherwise is to create danger for pedestrians and cyclists where there is none today.
2. Enforcement of blatantly dangerous parking -on zebra crossings, completely on pavements, blocking bike lanes- should commence today, so that such restrictions are not associated with the eventual RPZ rollout.
3. Zebra crossing safety on Cotham Road south is unlikely to be addressed by these proposals; we advocate the installation of a pair of in-road sheffield racks, to remove the zig-zag area as a parking option for delivery vehicles.
4. We have made some suggestions on assessing traffic within the city; these should be considered. In particular, RFID-tagged resident/disabled parking permits would prevent permit forgery/theft as well as enabling data collection and reducing future data collection costs

You see that? Not only are they pushing for existing double yellow lines on Nine-Tree Hill to be retained purely for the benefit of tax-dodgers walking and cycling to Cotham Grammar or Bristol University, they are advocating that existing rules about parking on double yellow lines or zebra crossings are enforced! In Bristol! Then they come up with some ideas to make it harder to create resident or disable parking permits, and to measure traffic flow in the area.

They are even asking that their campaign members send emails to respark@bristol.gov.uk supporting their proposals and referring to "Proposed Kingsdown RPZ"

This is shocking, and we hope that no readers of this, Bristol's Premier Anti-Cycling web site (despite how hard the Evening Post is trying to copy is), follows the cycling campaign's suggestions and writes in.

And again, those subversives, to add insult to injury, use our photographs! What do they think we are? Some kind of city-wide database of what actually happens on our streets, to be used to generate defensible data to support the cycling campaign? This a fundamental abuse of our goal, which is to celebrate the everyday solutions that drivers have to come up with to cope in an anti-car city.

Kingsdown and cliftonwood RPZ update

Breaking news: the detailed Kingsdown and Cliftonwood RPZ plans are up on the council site, go look for them.

Looking at the Kingsdown proposal:

• The Council also wants Saturdays to be RPZ only, 9-5. This will ensure revenue to Cabot Circus by reducing lower cost alternatives
  
• Will allow resident parking on the top of nine-tree-hill, a road that is currently only of interest to cyclists and pedestrians.
• Will add more yellow lines on corners etc.
• Have dodged the Kingsdown Parade bullet by still allowing parking on one side, except where there are yellow lines already

Although it will inconvenience commuters, out of hours it should still be OK to park as this car CN53MZZ has done: far enough onto the pavement that the double yellow lines no longer apply, and with the wing-mirror safe from being clipped

Extending the road

This car YM51MKA has found an innovative solution to the problem of there being no free pavement to park alongside, here in Ambra Vale, Clifton Wood.

It has chosen to park up behind the other cars, and so rely on nobody noticing that to its left, instead of some paving stones and a wall, there is a large gap then a driveway heading up to some garages.

It appears to have worked.

Sadly, if this area does become a controlled parking zone, then this is exactly the kind of semi-official parking space that not even residents will be able to use. And if all these "corner-case" parking areas disappear, that is a lot of the parking capacity of the city is going to be lost. Forever.

Fight for your right to park in the middle of the road! Join the campaign to keep the streets free!

Development

Development is good. So I'm told.

Especially in these challenging times. Come on, it must be. It puts money into the economy, which is good. It keeps people employed, which is good.

So it's nice to see someone putting some money into the economy in Redland. Not constrained by the planning system (unlike the poor inhabitants of Clifton), and despite being in a conservation area, it makes perfect sense to spend something for the privilege to park a car in your garden. After all, an RPZ may sneak up Whiteladies Road at anytime. And it's certain that a Showcase Bus route will.

So it's refreshing to see someone bucking the trend in Sustainable Redland and paving over their garden. And dropping a publicly owned kerb. And removing unsightly paving slabs (they only crack when you park a car on them, after all). And putting in high-quality tarmac paving instead for the benefit of all.

Development. Let's all do it. For the sake of the economy.

Welcome to the C-zone

Bristol Dave has put up a proposed map of the Congestion Zone. This is the same blog that had the -accurate- resident parking zone maps before anyone else, so it certainly represents thinking by part of the team that was in power up until last Tuesday

The central zone isn't surprising, but the Northern Zone is.

1. All of that area but the Nugent Hill area will be in the RPZ. Assuming that goes ahead, and the residents get free entry (not guaranteed, because the RPZ map includes the southern side of Cotham Road, but this C-zone would only work with cameras on St Michael's Hill and Cotham Road South, those being the main entry points. A camera would be needed at the end of Kingsdown parade too.
   
2. With Horfield Road in the C-zone, there is no way to get from Cotham to the centre except via Whiteladies Road or Gloucester Road.
3. With Arley Hill and Elmdale Road in the C-zone, there is no way to get to Whiteladies Road or Gloucester Road except coming in further north (Aberdeen Road, Zetland Road) and then turning south.
4. So this removes all incentive to drive through the area to get to or from Park Row.
   
5. Given the area will all become RPZ, the through-drivers could be addressed by four ANPR cameras -at the St Michael's Hill/Park Row junction, Woodland Road/Park Row, Arley Hill/Gloucester Road and Elmdale Road/Triangle. Make them red-light/speed cameras too, for the fun of it.
6. It will be a tax on everyone from Cotham and Redland who drives to the North Fringe via Kingsdown-St James-Barton-M32, but not if they go on Kellaway-Avenue and Filton Avenue.
   
7. The proposed C-zone also targets one group not affected by the proposed-RPZ -university car parking in the A-B-C car park zones and nearby pavements, and BRI staff.
   

Given the university have just clamped down on bicycles parked out of their -overflowing- bike parks, it's hard to feel sympathy. To be fair though, to get a staff permit to use their parking spaces costs a few hundred pounds a year, and the permits are limited, so a lot of staff don't bother, they park-and-walk for free. As for the BRI, it's pushing for extra staff parking. They may get it -at a price.

Kingsdown RPZ implementation issues #71

When the Kingsdown CPZ/RPZ gets rolled out, what will happen to vehicles like this white transit van R192RGM, whose driver has popped into the newsagent to the left of this picture, apparently to get to get a can of soft drink?

(a) As commuters will no longer be able to park in Cotham Road south, residents doing shopping trips will be able to park safely, instead of on the zig-zags of the zebra crossing.
(b) The vehicles will have nowhere to park, and will not shop here. Without the provisioning of short-term parking spaces, local shops like this will lose all passing motorist trade. Given the economic situation, all plans to roll out resident parking should be fought tooth and nail.

(c) It being a Saturday, passing road traffic will be able to find a large amount of parking space and park legally. Nobody will have any legitimate reason to park on the zebra, other than laziness and a wilful disregard for pedestrian safety.

Kingsdown RPZ implementation issues #83

When the Kingsdown CPZ/RPZ gets rolled out, what will happen to cars like this one T612JCV?

(a) Commuter cars like this will no longer be able to park on the pavement over double yellow lines within the zone.
(b) Resident cars like this will no longer be forced to park on the pavement over double yellow lines within the zone due to commuters taking all the legal parking spaces.
(c) It being a Saturday, anyone will be able to park on the pavement over double yellow lines within the zone.

The Unionists say: don't be fooled!

First, a quick Boxing Day walk round Highbury Villas, which will not be in the CPZ/RPZ, but which our data implies is popular with last-minute student parking. Over Xmas, all the residents have vanished, so we can see how lovely the streets look on a sunny morning.

A bicycle chained to a fence is the sole vehicle parked on one side of a road.

The main entrance route is clear. Strange. There is so much space it is unnatural.

Similarly, St Michael's Hill -CPZ/RPZ boundary, is devoid of all traffic and nearly all cars. It looks like a place lost in time.


And speaking of lost in time, here is the note from the unionists, with comments inline. Comment in italics from the perspective of Kingsdown, where the zone is weekdays, 9-5. The doc is transcribed as is, including not enough commas but lots of apostrophies, all in what appears to be the correct place.

Don't be fooled by Residents' Parking

Think Residents' Parking would improve your life? Don't be fooled

If Residents' Parking came to your street or one nearby:

1. There would be absolutely no guarantee of finding a space. Ask friends in cities like Bath that have Residents' Parking schemes -you can pay for a permit but still find nowhere to park.
The message here is that this won't fix the parking problem. True, but what do they propose as an alternate solution? Congestion Charging? Also, you aren't going to find anywhere to park on a weekday today so this will not make parking in Kingsdown worse.


2. There would be fewer spaces. Streets would be tidied and hundreds of spaces would be lost making parking, especially at night, more difficult.
If this means that existing rules about pavement and corner parking are enforced, then good. Those spaces were not legal anyway.

3. Fewer spaces would mean parking spilling over into neighbouring streets -causing problems where none exist today.
Parking problems exist in Cotham everywhere south of the railway line; this will not make things worse there during working days. It may make things worse evenings/weekends, but for those in the zone, it is not their problem. The people in the streets that may be affected get to make their own choice, and it is not for Kingsdown residents to feel guilty.

4. House prices would drop as parking becomes more difficult.
Currently off-street parking commands a premium and justifies the effort. An RPZ would eliminate the value of this premium, but should not impact house prices. Parking will not become more difficult for residents -it will become easier.

5. Residents, businesses and visitors would all have to pay to park or risk being towed away -adding extra costs in the worst economic situation for over 50 years. Local businesses would suffer and maybe close.
There will be more short-term pay-to-park parking than currently. All the Kingsdown parking spaces during daytime are occupied by commuters, leaving only the zebra crossings for short term visitors to local businesses.

6. The council may limit each household to one vehicle. Even if that is OK for you now, what if your circumstances change?
There is an assumption here that everyone has at least one car. The RPZ costs are a reason to reduce the number of household cars., not increase them.

7. Your household would be limited to just 100 visitor's permits per year. For a family of four, that's fewer than 2 visits each per month!
During working hours, nobody comes by car today, as there is nowhere to park, so that is 2 visits/week more than zero.

8. Builders and other tradesmen would use up your permits. Even a simple builder's job could use up a month's supply of permits.
Whoever wrote this hasn't had to deal with the double-parking builder problem you get today.

9. A family wedding or funeral could use up all your visitor permits for a year!
There is no way today that a family wedding or funeral would permit visitors to Kingsdown on a week day. So this would still be an improvement. Then there are weekends.

10. There would be more yellow lines, road signs, traffic-wardens and tow-trucks -do you really want this?
Bristol Traffic would like existing yellow lines and road signs to be enforced, along with rules about parking on corners, pavements and in front of schools, without waiting for a CPZ/RPZ rollout. It is a shame that Keep Parking Free does not consider those to be issues, but since they have fought the rollout of a zebra crossing designed to provide a safe walk to Christchurch School, Clifton, you can guess what their point of view there is.


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The organisation has  their own web site: http://www.keepparkingfree.org/
It's in a nice pretty green colour.

The progressives say Yes!

Below is a press release put out by the Brandon Hill supporters of their parking zone. You can judge from the tone that they are pretty unhappy about the unionists saying "No!", which shows they don't understand: it's all that unionists do. If your entire notion of self is defined by fighting plans to restrict parking by the council, then of course you fight them. The founder of the Keep Parking Free group apparently fought the council in a losing battle over a new zebra crossing in Clifton because it would take away three parking spaces. But still, they must fight progress, because that defines them

The Parking Zone supporters have a web site. On the site they say they want support for the proposed schemes. If you do wish to support them, email democratic.services at bristol.gov.uk and refer to the Call-In meeting on 5th January. Statements need to be submitted before noon on the 2nd of January 2009.


NEWS RELEASE –immediate release

31st December 2008

PARKING SCHEME REFERRAL TO "CALL-IN" COMMITTEE IS FRIVOLOUS

The review of the proposals to introduce two pilot resident’s parking schemes at a special Council meeting on 5th January 2009 is an unnecessary use of public time and money.

The pilot schemes were approved at a Cabinet Meeting on 27th November but the Conservative Group decided to refer the matter to the Call-In committee. This is a cynical and frivolous move with one thing in mind – to cause delay in the introduction of the pilot schemes. The Conservative group oppose any residents’ parking scheme of any kind in the city as does their "new best friend" – the NO campaign.

The Conservatives are seeking to thwart the expressed wishes of the majority of residents in the pilot areas in Clifton and Kingsdown. It would appear the group places the car owners’ rights to do whatever they want with their vehicles in this city above those of people who wish to live a quiet and normal life. They clearly believe the car is king.

The claims that the consultation was "flawed" are spurious. No definition of a benchmark for good practice in consultation has been given or described. What is meant by "flawed"? Certainly a consultation can’t be perfect. Such a hurdle would be impossible to achieve. We believe the consultation was on balance fair. If it was imperfect in any way it was because it Residents around the city were originally asked to vote for a draconian scheme with 24 hour restrictions and no flexibility. If they didn’t like the idea of this rigid scheme, they had no choice but to vote ‘no’. Given this, if the survey was biased at all, it was towards a ‘no’ vote. This completely negates the argument that the survey was flawed in favour of a ‘yes’ vote.

The Yes to Residents Parking Zone campaign team has been formed by a group of non-aligned residents in the Clifton Wood area. We have no connection with Bristol Council or any of the political parties. We have been circulating leaflets in the Brandon Hill zone and urging those in support of the pilots to submit statements to the Call-In committee and to attend this meeting.

We will be attending Call-In Committee on Monday 5th January and will oppose any consideration to refer the RPZ proposals to either a full Council Meeting or Cabinet meeting.

Our website address is: http://www.yestorpz.info

For further information contact: Stephen Perry 0117 904 0287, 07960 525191

Xmas day in Kingsdown/Down

And next door, in Kingsdown? In the proposed CPZ/RPZ?

If the opposition are Unionists, what to call them? Republican is wrong, not unless they really do get together in the Kingsdown Vaults and sing The Men Behind the Wire and argue that Kingsdown should be called Down, as no king is recognised. Let's call them progressives instead; it makes clear they are trying to move things forward.

What, then, happens in the Progressive District on Xmas day? There's spaces on the pavement to park on Kingdown/Down Parade. Behind the Landrover Discovery N506NFG

And again in front of the Ford Ka SK51AOA

There's a very long stretch of unused pavement in front of the green clio S540NTP; space that doesn't have yellow lines on it.

There is also space on the other side of the road. Perhaps the pavement-parked cars just haven't been moved that day.

Out of the picture, Somerset Street was full; one van blocking Spring Hill road and pavement. As with any other day.

What does that mean? It means that even at what appears to be the time when the least number of vehicles are visible in Cotham as it ever possible to see, Kingsdown doesn't quite have enough parking capacity for everyone who kept their car in the district over Xmas to park their cars legally on the road. Nobody had to resort to parking on double yellow lines, but the pavement of Kingsdown Parade does seem needed.

If the CPZ does go ahead, this will force the council to make a choice as to whether that pavement is to be considered an acceptable place to park or not. The Unionists may use that as an argument against the parking zone, which is why even if the plans go on hold, enforcement of existing rules about parking should be considered for Kingsdown. That way, the price of the CPZ will be less.

Oh, one more feature of the walkabout: the database now knows which cars are locals vs. commuters.

Xmas Day in the Unionist Quarter

We're going to start describing the bits of Cotham, Clifton and Redland that resists the parking zones as the unionist quarter; the associated organisations as unionists. Here we see Cotham on Christmas day, with a near-complete absence of cars.

Why Unionist? First, there's those odd flagpoles popping up. Either the Daily Telegraph or UK IP is selling them off cheap, or some people have decided to make a stand. Then there's Richard Eddy of the Conservative and Unionist Party, who is leading the defence in the council chambers. And finally it is papers like the Evening Post, that have a kind of a losing-battle-old-empire feel to them.

It's not like the Unionist bits of Northern Ireland, where outsiders get hard stares and "No Surrender" painted everywhere, but this whole lets-fight-for-motorists-rights campaign has that same futile narrative to old Ulster politicians who refuse to acknowledge the existence of the Irish Republic to the south on religious grounds. Our Unionist Quarter is not that bad, although there were rumours of an Orange Order march down whiteladies road at some point in the summer.


Christmas Day would be good for a march, with all the empty space and no signs of life.

This area voted against a resident parking zone, and you can see that once the students go away, there's enough off-street parking for the remaining residents to virtually disappear. Which must take pressure for having even a 5x8 CPZ down. Student cars don't move during the day, residents either walk to work, don't drive home before 16:00, or come up with an off-pavement solution.

If the Kingsdown RPZ gets rolled out, these streets will be where the overflow vehicles end up. It won't make any effect to the availability of spaces during working hours -you can't subtract from zero- but it may have impact evening and weekends. Although not Xmas day, by the look of things.

A parking space in Kingsdown! A miracle!

It's Christmas eve , and the town is quiet. Over in Kingsdown there is space for two cars to park, on the road, legally, without blocking fire engines. The Christmas week is the only time this happens. For people wanting to visit this annual miracle, the ritual of the open parking space, it's on Kingsdown parade, just opposite the car LL51ZSY on the pavement by the double yellow lines.

Also in Kingsdown news, a note came through everyone's letterbox asking everyone to email their local councillor to fight the CPZ proposals, which are going for review at a council meeting on January 5th. This opposition is being run by the Keep Parking Free group, who are generally from outside the zones. They don't want parking zones near them as not only will it remove places to drive to, it puts pressure on areas just outside the zone. Unfortunately, Kingsdown is already in this state: it's on the fringe of the inner city, and gets a lot of hospital traffic, amongst other things. Not visitors, commuters. Though if residents parking does get rolled out, and disabled cars can park freely, then it does provide a large amount of extra disabled parking not far from the BRI.

Coming out of the Kingsdown residents group is a counter-leaflet. Mark January 5th for your diary, as the council house could be fun.

Cotham goes Unionist

In past months, the community spirit and cost-effective taxi services of the segregated unionist/nationalist estates of Northern Ireland have been a source of inspiration.

Clearly it is inspiring people, as this month two house on Cotham have raised the unionist flag over their houses. Here in Cotham Grove

And again, in Cotham Road. Presumably this community spirit will be enhanced with coloured street kerbs and "no surrender" banners. something will be needed to not surrender too, perhaps the local branch of the Conservative and Unionist Party will make residents parking the no-surrender topic, moving on from "Say No to CPZ!" to "Cotham Says No!" in an Ian Paisley Senior accent.

This could be countered by Kingsdown going nationalist; joining up with the Peoples Republic of Stoke's Croft, embracing the republican theme and so creating a split in Bristol. The CPZ boundary is currently sketched out as down the centre of Cotham Road, and skating the top of Cotham Grove, so these houses could be next to the "peace wall" that will inevitably be required.

Highbury Villas

The question of whether it is students that cause parking problems in the university area is interesting. The simple way to determine this would be to audit the streets, get the registration numbers and assume all cars registered outside the city's commuting footprint are student cars. That would require access to the central number plate database.

The alternative is just to collect the registration numbers in term time/outside term time and compare them, assuming that vehicles seen in more than one week in term time and zero times outside it are students. Thatwould be informative, but time consuming.
It's simpler just to collect some photos and make some random assertions without any data to back up the statements, that being how city planners appear to operate. Here then, is Highbury Villas, off St-Michaels hill, on a weekday. This area will not be in the CPZ, so whoever has discovered that it is a secret parking area will be able to continue to do so, possibly including the honda WU05UZR.

And here is the same road on a weekend. There is clearly a tangible difference in the number of vehicles trying to get on the yellow lines, as on a weekday there isn't a single free double yellow line to park on.

This is not within the proposed Kingsdown CPZ, incidentally, that ends on St Michael's Hill, directly behind where these photographs were taken. It will be interesting to see how more congested this street becomes after the zone is deployed.

Middle of the Road

This is early evening near Somerfield's on St Michael's Hill, pencilled in as part of the Kingsdown CPZ. A zone in which it is promised that there will be short-stay parking provided for the shops, so that you can nip in and out of the local supermarket with ease. Currently there is 1-hour-max echelon-parking zone in front of the supermarket (echelon parking is Dept of Transport speak for sideways parked; it is very dangerous to bikes and not advised). Because parking times aren't enforced, its a park-all-day zone for everyone and the nearby taxi firm. What to do if you want to shop? Especially given there is no cycle parking here.

This car, P455GBD has shown what to do. Just stop in the middle of the road. Yellow line rules apply to the side of the road. They even apply to pavements.

But the middle of the road? Unlikely. If that was the case you would not be able to have roads which have yellow lines on one side only. Indeed, its possible that you will still be able to park this way once the CPZ gets deployed.

Middle of the road parking area it is, then.

Real victims of the CPZ

Here's a business that is going to suffer from the new CPZ/RPZ, as it is in Oxford Street, between Cotham Road and High Kingsdown, on a dead end to cars, through road to pedestrians. It's the local garage.

MOTs, engine repairs, brakes, etc: they do it. Reasonable pricing and because it is local, you don't have to drive over the city for vehicle work. But its in the zone. Which means the street outside that they managed as a parking area for vehicles not in active repair are going to be restricted to zone members only. This isn't good -something needs to be done for such organisations otherwise everyone ends up driving to chain garages in St Philips instead.

Given the zone is going ahead, it would seem timely for the residents to come up with a proposal to migitate the damage here. Something like a small number of temporary visitor permits that they can move from car to car. This garage is part of the community. Also, by taking the edge off such things, they will eliminate the stories that will come out against the program.

Council Parking Strategy

We have discovered the council's parking strategy. It's not a secret, what is surprising is there actually was a strategy. One that places priority on parking enforcement in the "outer zone" -that's the non-revenue earning parts of the city- to : avoid obstructions to traffic flow, to avoid road safety hazards and to maintain journey time reliability for buses. No mention of bike paths. no direct mention of safe pedestrian crossing. Just traffic flow. Interesting

Most ironical statement of the report is the risk assessment on page 8:

The City Council's effectiveness as a Transport Authority is at risk in the absence of a comprehensive and coherent Parking Strategy.

Yes it is.
[Photo: End of CPZ on St Michael's Hill. For anyone doing hill-climbing training, this is the turnaround point and a time for rest before repeating the climb. The two buildings on the right are scheduled for replacement by something more grandiose in the University plans. ]