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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/liveable-neighbourhood-opponents-continue-protests-9732264Stephanie, …, said that although she doesn’t disagree with active travel she doesn’t think there is the local ‘infrastructure to support it.’ Like others against the scheme, she has raised concerns about its roll out increasing traffic and air pollution and said she has witnessed an increase in dangerous driving in the last few weeks, including ‘horrific queuing’ outside St Patrick’s Primary School on Blackswarth Road.
“When people are forced to drive where they don’t want to go, they drive more recklessly. With car doors opening and kids running out, it’s extremely dangerous,” added Stephanie.
Photos have been shared on social media of cars driving over green patches on Netham Road to get around queued traffic. But those in favour of the scheme point out that these drivers should be reported to the police before they end up hitting children making their way to and from school and demonstrate the dominance that cars have in our city.
Also in that article there’s this bit:
One local mum who works in Barton Hill and drives from there to Whitehall everyday to pick up her children from school said she found herself 15 minutes late due to an increase in traffic. She left her work at Barton Hill Trading Estate at 2.45pm but claimed what would usually be a ten-minute car journey or 26 minutes by foot, took her over 45 minutes as a result of an increase in traffic congestion.So, it looks like she can choose a 45 minute drive or a 26 minute walk. It’s almost as if the scheme is encouraging people to walk short distances instead of driving.
Article on the BBC –
Article on the BBC – “thousands” demand halt:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6296300l05o
Whilst many of the measures were yet to be completed, those that were elsewhere had been welcomed. In St George, through traffic was now blocked from accessing Beaufort Road, a notorious rat run.Sabrina Fairchild, who lived nearby said: “It was never this quiet before, it was constant traffic. It has created more of a community feel and made it a nicer place to live.”
stonojnr wrote:
[quote=stonojnr]Its that time of year again, the annual Network Rail most hit railway bridge by HGVs list, a mere 1532 this past year, so only 1 every 6 hours. And it’s Stutney Road bridge near Ely that takes the top prize 18 hits, so roughly 1 every 3 weeks. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/britains-most-struck-bridges-unveiled-network-rail-highlights-top-risk-spots-for-road-safety-awareness-week%5B/quote%5D
Looks like they’ve got hi-viz, so maybe some kind of bridge helmet is needed?
Opinion piece on B24/7. I
Opinion piece on B24/7. I found it a bit placatory towards the people against LTNs, but then I’m just sick of motornormativity driving city and neighbourhood designs. Nobody cared about people not wanting cars polluting our air, blocking pavements, maiming and killing people when building new roads. It’s time for change.
Trying to create a new LTN in Bristol: Bizarre parking on West Country street as Audi mounts parked carOnlookers were left scratching their heads
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/bizarre-parking-west-country-street-9720716
Egged on by the others, the youngest of the Audis makes the first move.Young and hopeful, it moves in to strike, however youth and inexperience play against the youngling. It attempts it’s first mounting maneouvre, relying on it’s target not being able to move out of the way, but clearly has no idea how to do the deed.
Van gets sinking feeling on Cornish beach as surfer glides byVisitors to a popular Cornish beach watched as the sea engulfed the unfortunate vehicle
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/van-gets-sinking-feeling-cornish-9721002
Bloody surfers don’t even pay their wave tax
andystow wrote:
Front wheel trued and tensioned last night. I think it took me well over an hour.It looks round to me
I didn’t remove the sound because I didn’t think that it mattered – quite clearly the swearing was in reaction to an act of frankly horrid aggressive driving, so it was clearly reasonable. I simply could not imagine that it was a public order offence. And also, my reaction in the video just underlined how bad the driving was, if it weren’t readily apparent. Once again, genuinely gobsmacked at the police reaction.To be charitable to the police (though I wonder why I should), they’re acting on a specific complaint raised by the motorist and so are doing their job. However, I wonder why they didn’t just send you a warning letter instead which would have been far more appropriate. Ideally they should treat the swearing as a natural consequence of the driver’s abysmal driving. It’d be like prosecuting a stabbing victim for bleeding on the pavement.
I sincerely hope that the case just gets thrown out as a complete waste of time and money.
Looks like some Barton Hill
Looks like some Barton Hill residents don’t want the Liverpool Neighbourhood or at least not Marsh Lane to be a no-through-road:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/residents-take-streets-stop-liveable-9716152
I’m somewhat torn as I’m all for closing off roads to rat-running, but I also like that style of protesting – reminds me of Arthur Dent lying down in front of the bulldozer coming for his house.
slc wrote:
I have sympathy for the sign installation guy. The vegetation is overhang from a private garden, so the sign guy may well be instructed to report only. Incidentally, the bus gate enforcement will not begin right away. Apparently there will be some variable signs notifying that.I’ve just been up Pilemarsh and there were quite a few cars using it too – I imagine quite a few drivers will get caught out when they start enforcement.
More stuff: now we have some bus gates on Avonvale Rd and Pilemarsh. I have been looking at fixmystreet to see if anyone complains (or applauds) the LTN features, and this amused mehttps://www.fixmystreet.com/report/6729314
It shows a brand new ‘no motor vehicles sign’ hidden behind vegetation.
Why didn’t they clip the vegetation back? It can easily be challenged if the sign is obscured.
Pie to the pie to the pie to the pie?Is that like one of them turduckens, but with pastry?
I think we’ll need some kind of chart for this
ChurchillR wrote:
How useful is the fourteenth decimal place of pi? Well, the thirteenth and fourteenth digits are 7 and 9, so you could drop the fourteenth and round the thirteenth up to 8. Doing so would result in a rounding error that, when calculating a circle the size of the equator, of about 0.12 nanometres – less than the diameter of some atoms. Hardly worth the effort of drumming into any child’s head, but hopefully Pythagoras’ theorem comes in handy from time to time.Why π^π^π^π could be an integer (for all we know!)
It’s a cartastrophe!
It’s a cartastrophe!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/trojan-tax-parking-charges-cause-9709032
Townsfolk from Clevedon and Portishead have urged North Somerset Council to avoid a “catastrophe” by ditching its plans to end free parking in the towns.The council’s executive had voted in October to end free parking in a host of locations across both towns and Nailsea. But the plans were “called in” to a council scrutiny panel by councillors Tim Snaden (Portishead North, Portishead Independent) and Luke Smith (Clevedon West, Conservative) who warned the decision had been “troubling.”
Nine people from Clevedon and Portishead spoke at the scrutiny panel meeting on November 11, warning that the charges could cause a “catastrophe” for independent shops on Clevedon ’s Hill Road and would mean that people in Portishead would have to pay to drive to the Lake Grounds.
I saw that article – people saying ‘can we have those planters everywhere to stop pavement parking’ – but I suspect that the writers meant ‘can we have those planters everywhere to stop other people pavement parking’I thought they were wanting them to stop large vehicles parking – most notably caravans that people live in. As the planters are on the road, they dont necessarily stop pavement parking, but would make it more awkward as the driver would have to turn in to the gap.
Previously, that particular corner of St George’s Park had caravans/lorries all along the park and visibility was very much reduced, but it’s not as though drivers can reach any speed along there anyway as the road is narrow and has a blind corner due to the houses anyway.
