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Are the poor not allowed on buses?
I think the issue is more that poor people can’t afford to be fined for driving through bus gates.
Is that a photo-bombing banksy there?Yes, but the Banksy was there first – that’s why there’s the fences around it to stop people trying to vandalise it (too late).
The original Banksy looked like this:
Then it got a plastic covering over it to protect it, which was then replaced by a wooden covering and then it was later updated (by Banksy?) with a masked man trying to pry off the covering:
This morning the Avonvale Rd bus gate signs had been sprayed painted to read ‘no poor people allowed’.That’s been picked up the BristolPost now:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-bus-gate-signs-barton-10224123
And someone’s vandalised the vandalism:
IFYKYK; I recommend catching the whole movie to place this scene in context.
https://youtu.be/vru2y9Q5Bs0?si=NaVWiF5AQE-Fgq1mDoesn’t look like Whitby to me
As you poke around on the map and zoom in, there are these little blue/white circles dotted about. Water pumps, it turns out. Kein Trinkwasser.Those look great – why can’t we have them along our roads here?
wtjs wrote:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command Almost, but not quite, like a quotation from Animal Farm. Is it a famous quotation?So close and yet so far. It’s from 1984, also by Orwell.
slc wrote:
Bus gates to go live from 2nd June. Warning letters till 14 July, PCNs thereafter. https://news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releases/f3ce9e9d-7873–8727-15dde021a3cf/east-bristol-liveable-neighbourhood-bus-gates-to-go-live-in-june The gate road surfaces have also been painted a fetching red (the brick red colour on the one at Pilemarsh having been worn away in 6 months by all the drivers crossing the gate)Wait for it… wait for it…
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/liveable-neighbourhood-bus-gates-switched-soon/
The travel offers – already described in some quarters as “bribes” – include £100 of First Bus tickets that every household across the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood will receive through the post soon.For the first six weeks that the bus gates will be operational, drivers travelling through one of them will be sent a warning letter rather than being fined.
This ‘soft enforcement’ phase will come to an end in July and the bus gates will be fully operational from Monday July 14, with a penalty charge notice of up to £70 applicable after this time.
chrisonabike wrote:
Asking people to make costly voluntarily sacrifices is a great loyalty test AND demonstration of your power.The Trump administration seems to also test loyalty amongst people by making an obviously false statement and then watch to see who will attempt to produce justifications that just make no sense at all.
A good example of this was Musk’s Nazi salute – it quickly highlights those people who are willing to try to explain it away and those who refuse to deny the reality of what they saw.
Hirsute wrote:
I learnt another new word today about the US government LysenkoismLysenko provides an excellent lesson about how reality doesn’t care about political beliefs and how ignoring science/reality can end up starving millions.
Seeing as how Russia and China suffered from favouring ideology over reality, you would think that the U.S. people wouldn’t want to go through the same lesson. e.g. ignoring climate change due to it being inconvenient politically and ignoring vaccine eficacy due to idiots believing social media bollocks rather than history/science.
Seems like they have taken a political stance against the climate (which is as stupid as it sounds), but can’t ignore that solar and wind energy are not bankrupting us, but providing cheap energy without being tied to buying oil from dubious regimes.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/live-car-smashes-through-petrol-10208323
Strangely, the image they’ve included doesn’t look like Asda in Weston-super-Mare to me.
Edit: Seems like the picture was correct – I was suspicious about it being a link to a ram raid, but now there’s more details: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/ram-raiders-ditch-porsche-cayenne-10210586
I know it’s a different kettle of fish (or cargo)… but one for our occasional “boat crashes into building” (it’s for the pictures really)?OK… boat nearly crashes into building:
I saw that one and my first thought was “I hope they’ve checked for suspicious crates of grave-dirt…”
“The Reform leadership will be rolling out a full-scale review of all of the council’s expenditure, including all existing contracts, to find loose change.”Because despite all the cuts in the last 20 years and all the cost pressures, no one has ever done that at all, ever, at the council.
Do they even understand that there is an opportunity cost in pulling people away from their normal tasks to address something that does not need addressing?
And what will they do with a 5 year contract – rip it up if they don’t like it? Well, good luck with that. Might see you lose access to vital data if you try that or be forced to create something new at an even higher cost.
They’re just half-heartedly copying Trump/Musk/DOGE without realising that it’s becoming more apparent to outsiders with every passing day that the whole Trump administration is a kakistocracy.
We’ve already had the Tories plundering all that they can (including trying to make some pocket money with COVID) and Sunak diverting money from the poorest to the richest areas. I suppose that if you appeal to racists, then you’re not dealing with the brightest supporters.
There’s a fun little piece on
There’s a fun little piece on Bristol247 about the UKIP “headquarters” in Bristol: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/i-visited-ukip-national-headquarters-bristol/
Pavement parking surge sparks
Pavement parking surge sparks police crackdown in St George:
Well, maybe not a crackdown yet, but a warning of a potential crackdown