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Traffic to be banned from 'destination' Bristol street to help businesses survive
This is a contrast to the recent burger shop problem - there's plans to close Cotham Hill to traffic specifically to help the businesses there.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/traffic-banned-destination-bristol-street-5212159
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Great move. Rubbish route for cars anyway, and easy nearby alternatives.
Also in middle of students-ville - many of those shops/businesses main customers won't have cars.
How will they get any customers?
I'm not coming if I can't park out side <stamps foot>
Ive never (literally never) seen an empty parking space along there anyway. It will impact mostly motorists cutting through from Whiteladies Road to Cotham Brow and St Michael's Hill, I suspect.
isnt the Cotham Hill area where they often close the roads to hold street parties ?
Sounds about right.
And, of course,
(my emphasis)
Which translates as they're intending to hand all that public space over to the pubs and restaurants and squeeze any non-customers into a strip down the middle.
That's how I understand it. Sounds like a good idea to me as customers will be mainly outside and so virus transmission will be reduced.
I can live with a cycle speed reduction but then it's not exactly a major route (for me anyhow).
Exactly, it's to help businesses reopen in a responsible manner. The fact that it might possibly add a handful of seconds going up to Hampton Road, or down to Whiteladies, seems an eminently reasonable exchange to me.
I think my concern was more, given this Govt's love for making public stuff, private, that more public space might permanently become private space.
I read some stuff at the end of 2020 about streets in New York where they did this except with the added fun of having security guards at the end of the closed-off streets to check whether you were a 'genuine customer' of one of the restaurants or bars...
If COVID isn't going to clear off completely then a lot of this country's (brick built) hospitality needs to re invent itself along the lines of a beach bar if it is to survive at all. Let's hope you'll be able to ride your e-scooter down there too.
I was wondering if Howard Cox (Association of Bonehead Drivers) would like to come down?