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I know a great joke about
I know a great joke about scaffolds, but I’ve got to set it up first
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crex1dn03lgo
Labour say negatives of East
Labour say negatives of East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood outweigh positives: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/labour-say-negatives-east-bristol-liveable-neighbourhood-outweigh-positives/
They’re calling for the following measures:
- the bus gates on Avonvale Road and Marsh Lane to be turned off immediately
- compensation provided to businesses affected by the scheme
- the removal of the measures on Ducie Road bridge
- the replacement of planters on Cobden Street, Ducie Road and Lincoln Street with resident access only gates
- urgent improvements and redesign of the Blackswarth Road and Church Road junction
- expanding the monitoring of roads surrounding the EBLN to see how steeply traffic is increasing.
I’m not so sure about immediately changing the implementation as that will invalidate the trial (has it been going for 6 months yet?). Certainly, the Blackswarth Road/Church Road junction is abysmal and has needed a complete redesign since forever – that’s little to do with the EBLN and everything to do with it being a bad design. The number of times that drivers turn left from Blackswarth Road when there’s no left turn and of course that brings them into direct confrontation with the peds using the pedestrian crossing on Church Road. The junction also requires competence from drivers that are turning as they can easily block other drivers.
I blame that person standing in the road – the bus did well to avoid them.They also avoided a badly parked police car
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bus-under-attack-message-after-10499230
Bus under attack! from a lamppost
https://newsthump.com/2025/09/03/taliban-condemns-reform-uks-treatment-of-women/
The Taliban have condemned Reform UK’s treatment of women, insisting they would never work with a party who refused to sack an MP convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
I had major issues before I got a waterproof car seat cover. Every time it rained or I took my dog out, the seats would end up soaked and muddy. Spills from coffee or water bottles left stains that were hard to clean and made the car smell musty. Since I didn’t have any protection, the fabric wore out quickly. That’s why I switched to the Stablela waterproof cover for car seat – now everything stays clean, dry, and easy to wipe down.That sounds really useful. I’ve often wondered what I should use when taking my squirrels out – do you have any suggestions on how to waterproof squirrels so that they don’t get wet in the rain?
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.
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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