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Campaigners condemn Liveable
Campaigners condemn Liveable Neighbourhood vandalism:
After being one of a handful of women who came out at around 4.30am to protest against the installation, Fadumo Farah said she opposed anyone who damaged the planters now.Fadumo, who is the tenants rep at Barton House for community union Acorn, said: “This is not the right way. We must stand together and take legal, peaceful action. Those responsible don’t represent Barton Hill – we respect the law and will fight the right way.”
Weirdly interesting YouTube and didn’t know cars were using Lidar – except Tesla, of course, plain old camera there.It seemed a lot of trouble to go to to sneak a Lidar unit into Disneyworld just to map an enclosed roller-coaster and wouldn’t wearing a face mask just draw attention to you at the security desk?
I think it’s just a handful of cars that use Lidar currently, but it’ll likely become the norm for autonomous vehicles as it has distinct advantages. What I like about Lidar is that it’ll detect pretty much any kind of object/person in more or less any conditions (e.g. heavy fog), so even if the software is a bit rubbish, it can at least figure out “there’s something directly in my path, better hit the brakes”.
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Haven’t you heard of the war on motorists? We are to be grateful they don’t righteously drive through our living rooms.I think you need the “cars in buildings” thread for that
Are you a bit further down? The difference is very noticeable from roughly beaconsfield rd to salisbury street, where there were three stages:1. Until about 2 years ago, no pavement parking.
2. Then some pioneers decided to try it out and there would be a few car each day (excacerbating the rat-run quarrels). Check it out on Streetview 🙂 https://maps.app.goo.gl/sNpRmGHerjxnGLnp8
3. The day after the bollards went in there was apparently an agreement that pavement parking was now OK and the whole pavement in that section is now blocked. In my opinion this was a major factor in last week’s collision (I witnessed and stopped to assist) – the photo in the article you linked shows not congestion but pavement parking (and the ambulance could not make the tunr because of a pavement parked van, right opposite the junction).
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-showing-utter-disregard-people-10004484
Yep, I’m further down and we’ve had pavement parking for years.
I haven’t noticed much
The most visible outcome of modal filters in the road near hp and me is (drumroll) more antisocial parking.I haven’t noticed much difference there to be honest. The most notable change has been how much quieter our road and Beaufort Rd are.
What I’ve found so funny (funny ha-ha, not funny peculiar) about the Bristol Post coverage is how many of their BTL commenters think that Labour still runs the council…And how many of the rest seem to be surprised that a Green Party leadership who won by a landslide took that as a mandate to push ahead with ostensibly Green policies.
Yeah, but the EBLN was conceived during Labour’s watch
Investigation into police
Investigation into police presence in 3am Bristol bus gate installation chaos:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/investigation-police-presence-3am-bristol-10026144
I don’t really agree with the idea that the council is splitting the community along race and class lines, though I’m not a Barton Hill resident so maybe I’m missing something. Surely the only reason why there was a heavy police presence was due to the citizen revolt against the scheme? It doesn’t appear that the police did anything untoward though it is curious as to why they needed so many.
I’ll sneak this one in here,
I’ll sneak this one in here, though I’m not sure if it really belongs here:
https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/
Driver vows never to return
Driver vows never to return to West Country holiday spot after ‘rip-off’ parking fine:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/driver-vows-never-return-west-10019680
They’re fining drivers who don’t fit their cars fully into the marked bays, but drivers are complaining that their cars are too big for the spaces.
Worth noting that the abovementioned Fadumo has so far been a dynamo for the Green vote in East Bristol (and is generally of an activist and active nature, as well as being, IMO, a lovely person) and that one of the Green councillors for the relevant wards is a bit of a controversial figure within their own party. This could get interesting and prove a bit of a shake-up in local politics.Ed: It seems somewhat as if, in taking on one of the mayor’s projects, the current Green-led council has betrayed its previous bottom-up approach and adopted the top-down imposition of the mayor. That’s all sweeping terms obviously….
Fadumo has written an opinion piece here: https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/sad-shocked-happened-barton-hill/
There were some 50 police officers standing around. There were massive vans, ready to cart away anyone who disagreed with the scheme.The police used their power to assist the contractors. They were safe but we knew our rights, we knew what we were doing.
The relationship between the community around the Barton Hill area with the police, Bristol City Council and the people who live in Lawrence Hill ward will no doubt be affected by what happened.
I care about the environment but I care about my community as well.
I want to say good luck to the council for developing relationships with this community, because it’s very concerning coming in the middle of night when everyone is fasting to a Bristol neighbourhood where it is well-known that a large ethnic minority population live.
It’s sad and I’m shocked the way it happened. We’ll see in six months time what will happen.
Council has just an ‘E’ left
Council has just an ‘E’ left to finish East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood work:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-just-e-left-finish-10019514
And yet discussing possibly blocking aring-roadmotorway as a protest IS an arrestable offence.Well, the whole XR thing was the establishment making an example of people who dare to push back against motornormativity and the idea that we should destroy our planet to make a few people richer.
“They said we would get arrested and we were breaking the law for protesting on the road.”Blocking essential infrastructure, innit? Talk to the people from XR. Even thinking about it appears to be a crime nowadays (again, XR), so she ought to be lucky that the police aren’t in there arresting her for that.
I’m glad that they weren’t arrested for a peaceful protest. In their defence, the roads aren’t “essential infrastructure” as otherwise they wouldn’t be installing bus gates on them.
Also, the Bristol247 article:
Also, the Bristol247 article: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/police-join-contractors-bus-gate-installed-before-sunrise/
Several of the protesters who lay down on Marsh Lane are currently fasting because it is Ramadan and were unable to have their Suhoor pre-dawn meal.Another protester said that no legal notice had been given that the roads would be closed in order to install the bus gates.
Fadumo Farah, who lives in Barton House, said that she left her home before 4am after being notified about what was happening via a WhatsApp group.
She said: “The police officers told me they were here to keep the peace but it looks like they were assisting.
“We were only four women and one man. We were peacefully protesting and there were around 50 police officers…
“They said we would get arrested and we were breaking the law for protesting on the road.”
When contractors divided themselves to work on different sections of the infrastructure including on Marsh Lane and Avonvale Road, protesters also split up.
Farah added: “My position is supporting the community. As soon as I saw so many police officers, that was really disappointing because there were only a few of us…
“I have seen so many women broken and crying. We missed our special meal with our family this morning and now we are fasting…
“I asked them to bring us water or something but they refused to do that.”
Bus gate in on Avonvale Rd, at the site of the protests.I think it might have gone in overnight. I did not notice it yesterday evening, though I was adjacent rather than going through and slightly occupied at that point with avoiding a driver cutting the corner on a right turn (giving me a cross look as they did so, so maybe the gate was in and I was to blame).
It looks like a hasted job – no planters or tarmac colour, just signs and paint on the road, one of which read ‘Bus Gat’
Maybe they were aiming for “Bus Goat”?
BristolPost article here: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/huge-overnight-police-council-operation-10018858
A massive council operation to finish the last remaining parts of the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood took place overnight and succeeded in installing road blockages and bus gates – almost.The council, its contractors ETM and Avon and Somerset Police descended on Barton Hill at 3am this morning, Thursday, March 13, in a co-ordinated operation to install planters, bus gate signs and paint the roads.
A small group of residents were alerted and began trying to stop them from around 4.30am, but with a huge police operation, and a co-ordinated programme to work at multiple locations at the same time, the contractors ETM worked almost unhindered for the first time in Barton Hill. Previous efforts to install the traffic blockers have met with mass protests.
A handful of local residents tried to stop the installation in the five remaining locations, but only succeeded at one – at the junction of Marsh Lane and Avonvale Road – where a group of women lay down in the road to prevent the completion of one of the bus gates.
It was quite cold last night, so fair play to the women lying down in the road – that’s dedication for you.