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Another piece by Faduma Farah
Another piece by Faduma Farah: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/why-ive-been-standing-way-10099623
Jeremy Clarkson to serve ‘brains’ at Cotswolds pubJeremy is going after the zombie crowd?
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25085198.jeremy-clarkson-serve-brains-cotswolds-pub/
hawkinspeter – for what it’s worth, I’m still haunted by the squirrel on its polyester tray in the chiller at Swanage Budgen’s I saw a few years ago.
PS – I know it can be annoying to chefs when customers smother their creations in this stuff, please but please don’t claim there is no British ketchup:
More people should eat grey squirrels as they are a pest. I’m concerned about whose brain he’s serving when he often doesn’t seem to have a sufficient supply for his own use.
And so it begins…
And so it begins…
…when the bus gates are activated.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/6am-contractors-complete-east-bristol-10099575
There’s just a bit of road painting left to do now.
Fire engine gets stuck behind
Fire engine gets stuck behind east Bristol LTN bollard:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/fire-engine-gets-stuck-behind-10093899
A fire crew got stuck behind a bollard on the way from a bin fire in a block of flats in Barton Hill as they’d forgotten the code to lower it.
It really feels like we’re living in some sort of SF dystopian novel, doesn’t it?PKD foresaw it, though his novel was based on a different outcome of WWII, not the precursor to WWIII. Maybe the Idiocracy film is a closer fit?
I also have doubts about the
I also have doubts about the future of Tesla
Hirsute wrote:
Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?I’m surprised that they didn’t get the police involved for theft of the van. Maybe the terms and conditions for using the car park state that you relinquish any right to the property left there?
I’m pretty sure that’s an untitled goose
Hampshire police use blue lights for swan in Hot Fuzz chaseSadly the image accompanying the article is “A generic photo of a swan” and not the actual bird in question.
What is this, a day for swans?
Bristol and Bath trains delayed – by swans: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-bristol-bath-trains-delayed-10070804
At this rate, we’re gonna need a different thread.
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April fools from Bristol Live?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/congestion-bristol-getting-worse-locals-10062351 (Just seems to be a bunch of online chat – but not all entirely misinformed).Congestion in Bristol is getting worse as locals say ‘just improve public transport!'I like the cut of Kaylon64’s jib:
The congestion in our towns & cities has been caused by a massive rise in private vehicle use since the 1980’s coupled with a lack of investment in public transport. The Tories championed individual car transport as ‘freedom’ and had the buses and trains privatised. Now we have mass congestion & high pollution. So the pendulum is swinging the other way with pedestrians, buses & cycling being prioritised. It’s estimated that over 30 million vehicles hit UK roads every day. This isn’t about attacking motorists but re-balancing the system.
Parents say East Bristol
Parents say East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood makes roads ‘100 times safer’ for children:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/parents-say-east-bristol-liveable-10059949
Several locals turned up at City Hall to speak to councillors about their views on the scheme, during a meeting of the transport policy committee on Thursday, March 20. Many more submitted written statements. In total, 39 of the 62 statements were supporting the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood, compared to 10 who opposed the scheme.
But do you remember a time when ‘hire station’ was open? It has been closed and falling down for so long now that I am expecting it to become a listed buildingI do indeed.
I reckon that this housing devleopment on stilts, above the car-park within an actual-park, and just on the edge of the LTN , will interest you. See if you can guess what the main point of discussion was at the time :)Ah, a brilliant find!
In the spirit of that – perhaps all the residents could volunteer to have car parking installed on top of their houses? Or have the vehicles installed downstairs – like some of places on Church Road or Seneca Street seem to have?
I mean, if it fights discrimination, helps the ambulances get through, reduces congestion and fighting over parking spaces…
I remember when the corner of Seneca Street had a 24-hour petrol station there instead.
Mind you, I remember when Ebeneezer Street had a porn film studio there rather than the current HMO. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/former-porn-studio-become-flats-63770
This chap needs to go back for a physics refresher. Is traffic an incompressible fluid (“it will just go elsewhere”) or not (“there will be more traffic elsewhere” – presumably on another street which is “already congested”)?Or is it failure to understand “if the previous ‘solution’ caused the problem to recur, that’s probably not the ‘solution'”?
“We had a couple of trees, but after a while they were full of squirrels – in fact they were running about and causing problems. So we added some trees and installed more dreys. Now there seem to be a lot more squirrels. But the idea to fence off some of the trees and remove dreys is creating a problem, it just moves the squirrels elsewhere. To fix it we clearly need more squirrel capacity again, that’ll fix things forever!”
Can’t we just move them to Guernsey? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrdnkyvpjgo
Park Street car ban scheme
Park Street car ban scheme not ‘solving problem but moving it’:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/park-street-car-ban-scheme-10049226
However, the government-funded plans have sparked controversy, with some local business owners arguing they may be forced to relocate as reduced traffic could “kill Park Street”. Conservative councillors on the transport policy committee have voiced concerns that the traffic could simply be redirected onto Park Row and past the Bristol Royal Infirmary.Conservative group leader Councillor Mark Weston stated: “We’re creating a problem, we’re not solving it, we’re just moving it.”
In response, Green Cllr Rob Bryher said: “”There’s been lots of literature that shows if you restrict through-traffic, then traffic just evaporates. It’s part of transport planning that everyone understands.
After the meeting Steve Smith, a former Bristol councillor and the Conservative mayoral candidate, said: “The business community have been very clear — this scheme will damage trade for local independent businesses and potentially force them to leave. Why do the Green councillors think they know more about what is good for someone’s business than the people who run them?”
Despite the outcry from local independent businesses, fearing the changes could force them to shut down, only 315 people have signed a petition against the proposed alterations.
