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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-clean-air-zone-narrow-6256115
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A Green scrutiny councillor told a public meeting the scheme would “replace like with a cleaner like” rather than “cleaning up the air fully” when it is introduced next summer.
But senior officers at Bristol City Council said the nature of the Clean Air Zone was the direct result of the Government’s “narrow approach” to funding it.
They said Whitehall would not fund any measures, such as new cycling routes, that did not directly help to drive down NO2 levels in the city to the legal limit or below.
It comes after a member of Bristol Cycling called the Clean Air Zone a “missed opportunity” to end mass car dependency and amounted to millions of pounds being spent on “moving some people from highly polluting vehicles to slightly less polluting vehicles”.
The council announced earlier this month it had won just over £42million of government funding for a range of measures to soften the impact of the Clean Air Zone.
The bulk of that money, £34million, will be used to help businesses and people on low incomes switch to less polluting vehicles.
The rest will mostly be used for schemes such as free bus tickets, free electric bike loans and cycle training to help people switch to public transport and make more journeys by walking or cycling.
A bid for funding to build a new cycle scheme in Old Market was rejected.[/quote]
A cynic might think that the government isn’t fully invested in replacing some steel box journeys with active travel
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One of the best things
One of the best things Bristol could do is go around and replace all those stupid orange screw-in wands with proper bolted-to-the-road permanent ones
…make the ‘pop-up’ lanes permanent.I know I go on about it a lot (venting, for my blood pressure) but the Park Row lanes in Bristol are a complete waste.
I can use the entire length from Lower Park Row to the traffic lights at the top of Park Street, going westbound/home, at most once per week. There is always at least one van parked in them, and usally several. When the council teams come and replace the wands, it takes no more than a day before the wands have pretty much all disappeared again (are they the new traffic cones, for students?).
Last night there were two cars parked in the section west of the exit from Trenchard Street multi storey; another two in the next section ending at the White Hart pub; and another five in the section from the kebab shop to the traffic lights.
Waited behind one outside the White Hart until they realised I was there. They moved their car forward and perched it right next to the kebab shop. I told the driver this was (supposed to be!) a cycle lane, and she apologised but didn’t do anything like actually driving off (?).
I moved to the next car, a couple sat there with their engine running, eating their kebabs; as I started to speak, the male passenger just reached over and wound his window up without even acknowledging me.
The next car (also headlights on, engine running) had a woman in it, who made some sort of pantomime about ‘oh, so sorry, didn’t realise, etc etc’.
The next two cars were empty.
If the council isn’t going to actually send traffic wardens along to enforce the no-parking restrictions, and isn’t going to replace the temporary plastic wands with proper un-removable things, then the whole exercise is a complete waste of their time and money and simply a box-ticking exercise so they could say they’ve ‘done something’.
I’ve emailed the Highways Team and the Mayor’s Office to complain 😉
…make the ‘pop-up’ lanes permanent.
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