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Seems like there’s some fuss
Seems like there’s some fuss about the flats at the top of Victoria Avenue not getting their waste collected for a while.
This was initially blamed on the EBLN not allowing the collection trucks through: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/residents-cant-open-windows-because-10397839
However, it’s now being blamed on poor parking: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/drivers-bristols-liveable-neighbourhood-blamed-10400670
Not only are cars sentient and able to drive themselves into walls, but they have now evolved emotions. This car apparently “smashed like fury” into a wall outside a large school in Bradford“Fury” can also be a noun – the furies are chthonic goddesses of vengeance that like to wear squirrel suits, though I might be confusing “furies” with “furries”.
(They appear in The Sandman, but prefer to be called “The Kindly Ones”)
Getting longer by less than 2 minutes in most cases. That’s obviously an horrendous price to pay for a reduction in KSIs.
Hirsute wrote:
Bristol folk are a bit strange! https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/real-life/i-crashed-road-ended-up-10367070%5B/quote%5DInsurance companies hate this one trick:
[quote=Yoga]But when it was her turn to approach Archangel Raphael, he stamped her ticket and reversed the crash. Yoga said: “He got the okay from God to save my life. When I went back into my physical body, my car was miraculously on the road with no scratches or bumps.
If I was living there and regularly needed to travel similar distances to those I do in Edinburgh (not particularly long) I’d seriously consider getting an EAPC. Certainly in weather like last week…OTOH perhaps locals can work out routes with more forgiving gradients? Plus I didn’t try the bike share bikes or scooters there. Maybe they make things more relaxed (being powered / power assisted)?
It’s perfectly flat in-between the hills though
Oops – police went the wrong
Oops – police went the wrong way: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-car-emergency-call-blocked-10336623
Winners and losers: https:/
Winners and losers: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/residential-road-used-rat-run-10325834
A road on the boundary of the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood (EBLN) has become dangerously busy as a result of the scheme, a resident says.Trooper’s Hill Road, on the eastern edge of the EBLN, has long been used as a cut through for drivers getting between the A431 where Nags Head Hill meets Air Balloon Road in the north and Crews Hole Road in the south.
Sorry Brooksby, I didn’t see that you’d already posted this. I think my browser got confused as my IP address was changing between Albania and the UK (YouTube doesn’t show ads in Albania)
“Straight white men simply can’t catch a break in today’s world. If you ignore that the vast majority of top jobs in the world of business, politics, and the arts have been taken by straight white men, then you realise that we have literally no role in society.“I just want to be treated equally,” Lowe continued, while being interviewed on national television, in a segment produced, directed and hosted almost exclusively by straight white men.
The Reform MP ended his remarks by heroically positioning himself as the voice of the voiceless — or at least, the voice of those whose only real problem is that they can’t say certain things on Twitter anymore without being called what they are.
This is bizarre: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/disability-group-consulted-for-liveable-neighbourhood-allegedly-fabricated/If the report is true, BCC made up the Barton Hill Disabilities Group that they allegedly consulted before the EBLN trial.
I can’t believe that they opened that up to comments BTL. Why, it’s almost as if the Post wants to stir people up against the LTN…
That wasn’t the Post, but Bristol247. However, the Post has now picked up the story: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-accused-making-up-fictional-10294057
It doesn’t actually allege that BCC invented them – only that the group ‘may have been fabricated’ – by who is unspecified.It’s not clear to me what the ‘claim to have consulted’ the group consisted of – that could just mean that they recieved a submission from someone claiming to be from the group and took it at face value. The report seems pretty slim and light on details about that, and what measures they took to try to track them down.
Also somewhat dubious about how independent the authors of this ‘independent report’ might be, given that they appear to be a community group working in the same neighbourhood as the commissioning group.
I’ve not had any contact with the report author, but they (https://baggator.org/) seem reputable and community focussed. It does concern me if BCC didn’t consult with disability groups as that just gives the anti-EBLN groups more ammo, and of course we would want people with disabilities to benefit from the reduction in car traffic.
Personally, I thought there was plenty of opportunities to engage with BCC about the scheme during the many years that it was delayed and nothing was done.
This is bizarre: https://www
This is bizarre: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/disability-group-consulted-for-liveable-neighbourhood-allegedly-fabricated/
If the report is true, BCC made up the Barton Hill Disabilities Group that they allegedly consulted before the EBLN trial.
ROOTminus1 wrote:
[quote=ROOTminus1]It’s a 30mph on the bridge, and toll booth 4 is directly in line with the A38 eastbound lane from the tunnel, rather than the local traffic from Saltash. Medical episode is a possibility, but falling asleep with cruise control locked on is more likely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2vy151j7o%5B/quote%5D
Again, the BBC’s language is desperately avoiding the driver having agency. “The vehicle flipped” rather than the far more accurate “the driver flipped the vehicle”.
This afternoon in Stokes Croft in Bristol.Some nice pics on Bristol247: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/car-crashes-pizza-restaurant/
One question the police need to ask is how the car that crashed into Pizza Is Lovely managed to violently crash at such a velocity when the speed limit on the road is 20mph.
This afternoon in Stokes Croft in Bristol.Just saw this on the BBC site too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyq8gd0lgpo
I’ve rotated your photo round the right way (Road.cc isn’t very good at handling photo uploads)
Reform UK councillor demands removal of town hall Pride flagHe’s not happy!
…I did ask the town hall to take it down as it is causing some upset amongst residents and if it were not flown it would cause upset to no one.”
Cllr Hopley said he felt under attack. He wrote: “I have now been called prejudiced and racist by members of the town council. I am not in any way prejudiced. I was simply expressing a view of my constituents who felt they did not have a voice.”
Neither of those videos work