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Park like you've earned it
Being a rich and successful driver presents many opportunities for you to present your achievments to the lesser mortals. You have the car and the personalised plates and this gets the admiring looks,...
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Love Bristol -go Brent #2
Continuing our tour of the best ideas from Brent, we want to highlight side roads that don't let pedestrians cross themby doing this on a "shopping street", Brent makes sure that nobody who actually...
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Love Bristol Go Brent #3
As we said, the pavement provides extra parking options. First, note the bollards, They aren't designed to stop vehicles getting on to the pavement so much as to make it clear to pedestrians that...
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Why torch bunker bikes?
Happy New Year to our readers! There may only be eight of you, but that still keeps us ahead of the Evening Post print run! Back in October, we took a quick look at Bunker bikes, who fix up second hand...
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Clifton Expanded Parking Opportunities -consultation
Back in 2011, we looked at the Neighbouhood Partnership proposals for Clifton, adding more parking under a guise which even we were impressed by "to calm traffic". That's a great lie -one to use the...
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Cyclists! Please support the Clifton Expanded Parking Zone!
As stated, the Clifton Expanded Parking Zone will add more car parking to Clifton -not only not adding space in the village for bicycles, but cancelling what appears to be a proposal for an on-road...
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Clifton Expanded Parking Zone: who objected in our name?
We are strongly in favour of the Clifton Expanded Parking Zone, not for the number of spaces it provides, but because it would set back any attempts to improve permeability for and parking of bicycles,...
View ArticleClifton EPZ -councillors vote
Following on from Barbara Janke's superb victory over the cyclist trying to catch her out on the small detail that the Expanded-Parking-Zone is at odds with the council's strategic walking and cycling...
View ArticleThe Clifton Expanded Parking Zone: what did Barbara say?
Readers! you have only two more days to email tro.comments@bristol.gov.uk with your praise for the TRO proposal CAE/NMT/P/815It's important to do this, as we hear that the cycling troublemakers are...
View ArticleWho is objecting to the Expanded Parking zone!
We had expected out readers to write in supporting the Clifton Expanded Parking Zone. But instead someone copies us in on an objection they sent in ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: David...
View ArticleThe Bristol Cycling Campaign object too -predictable
Well, it's predictable that the cycling campaign group would write in and object -which is why the council wisely announced this TRO in the most discreet way possible.Well, the tax-dodgers found out...
View ArticleQuick -it is not to late to counteract this CPEZ objection
We had hoped that it being the last day to get comments in to the Clifton Expanded Parking Zone proposal, there'd be nobody else complaining about it.No, instead we get a copy of yet another objection...
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Pedestrians -please stay at home!
It's snowing out there -and a lot of people are still trying to walk to their destinationThe conditions are so bad that many of these people are walking in the road. This includes all the students...
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Cyclists -think before you walk round the city
Just as we think pedestrians should stay at home, we think cyclists should question their journeys they won't be cycling -they'll be walking -and in doing so, selfishly, making traffic worse. It's not...
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2WD Drivers -please get the 4x4 out for the school run today
Following on our advice to pedestrians and cyclists, we have one moreA lot people are still driving their small cars to school and work, creating needless traffic jams for important people. Here on...
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True Grit
We've been up to Redland, checking out that our roads have been properly gritted.Remember, people, we pay for the roads, so you can grit them.Imagine our surprise, therefore, when we found an Igloo, no...
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Italian Job on Ninetree hill
Every year, when it snows, the same thing happens. Someone tries to drive up or down ninetree hill, gets in trouble, crashes. Every single time -sometimes people even die.It's as repetitive as the...
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Article 7
Further down ninetree hill, there's a red clio SN52BNJ paveparked quite elegantly.It's only when you get alongside that it's clear that this car wasn't parked -it crashed into a lamp post while sliding...
View ArticleTwo cyclists killed in Hanham
As has been nationally reported, two cyclists were killed in Hanham on Sunday afternoon. The driver of the car has turned themselves in.The thoughts and condolences of most Bristolians, whether they...
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"we're not anti-cycling, but" -flax bourton joins the bikelash
This site has been quiet recently -but then our business model isn't based on having a high visitor count and then selling adverts to advertisers who want to sell things to those people who visit the...
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