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11 minutes later, in fact…
That’s why we all have two minute hands on our clocks
In other local news, I’m sure there was an announcement in these hallowed pages that all stand-alone pedestrian crossings in Bristol would be reprogrammed to change instantly when someone presses the button. Does anyone know anything about this? Cos it clearly hasn’t happened yet.I think it was a proposed plan and they haven’t started doing it yet
Not exactly local to me, but thought I’d take a look anyway. From the photos in the news article, it is kind of difficult to understand where the route for peds is. So then a quick look at Google Maps and I see the route through the little sort of park thing behind the trees. Is it a quicker route to walk on the bike lane, or just embedded behaviour that makes peds want to walk beside the traffic?It depends on what’s going on in the middle bit as you can have various food trucks there and that tends to push the pedestrians to walk next to the road. Quite often, going by the road is the more obvious direct route and it should really be a different colour to give peds a chance of noticing the bike lanes.
We’ve got that on a approx 50m section of “pavement” near me. Doesn’t actually connect to anything, but for those folks who know where to look you can find small “low-viz” bicycle symbols on a few tiles!So much of this crap appears to be because it was given to a (visually creative) design intern / new junior member of the team to “make a place” on the pictures and that was the most thought that it got. “Hey – Sue – can you make one of your nice visualisations of the layout we’ve agreed here? You know – pastel colours, trees, someone with a pram. Oh – and include some bike stuff…”
This particular section is a very busy part of central Bristol, with lots of pedestrians and lots of cyclists. The roads around it have loads of buses and taxis which are not great for cycling along, so most cyclists will be using these lanes if they figure out where the lanes actually are. Luckily, the pedestrianised bit in the middle is fairly large so most cyclists just go carefully to avoid the peds and there’s little friction between them AFAIK.
Here’s a typical section on the pavement by the Hippodrome: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RfTNMPpSD1LXne2r9
Mayoral candidate you say? What they need is a charismatic yet sensible, middle-ground type of person with their finger on the pulse. And positive policies, not just “down with this kind of thing”. Someone who won’t just alienate chunks of the electorate.Is Susan Hall free? Or Zac Goldsmith?
Funnily enough, the bigot Aaron Banks (who we have to thank for his part in the whole Brexit farce) doesn’t even know what the Mayor’s job is about and has declared that he’ll just employ some stooge to do it for him if he’s elected.
I think you need to add pics in the comments, HP has figured out how to add them in the main body, but the comments thing seems easier.Yeah, using the Browse and Upload buttons with a comment is easier, but it does only allow one image per comment and no control over where it appears.
To add an image to a post, you first need to upload the picture so that it’s visible over the internet (e.g. upload to Imgur.com).
Then get the https link to the image and surround it with “img” tags in square brackets. Here’s an example with spaces included so that you can see what I mean:
[ img ] https://i.imgur.com/owzpuaM.jpeg [ / img ]
And here’s what it looks like without the spaces:
I had a little look for other
I had a little look for other parties that have used bikes as their “election symbol”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_National_Panthers_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Desam_Party
What could go wrong with a Tory referendum?
Perhaps the BBC is actually describing the reality rather than the theory? The reality is that there are very large numbers of ebikes being ridden that have been illegaly fixed up to avoid power restrictions. They look like ebikes. They were sold as ebikes. They were secretly transformed into ebikes with motorbike levels of power.They can only be spotted as something else when ridden madly about.
When the law and its application is effective in differentiating ebikes from motorbikes disguised as ebikes – law applied to manufacturers and retailers as much as to motor software hackers – the BBC and everyone else may be able to accurately differentiate ebikes from “ebikes”. In fact, “ebikes” should become impossible to make and will revert to the more obvious electric motorbikes in design and appearance (and legal control).
It’s pointless to attempt to stop any alteration or manufacture of modifiable e-bikes as the tech involved is basic enough that people can easily cobble together something that’s more powerful.
The way to enforce the law is *GASP* by getting the police to do their job. Of course the police may decide that it’s a very low level priority (based on number of RTCs), but in principle it’s easy to spot a modified e-bike. All they need to do is position themselves halfway up a long hill and stop those “cyclists” that aren’t even pedalling and yet travelling quickly. Bonus points if they spot that the bike has a battery pack duck-taped into the frame triangle.
Personally, I’d much rather have criminal types on e-motorbikes than in a much more powerful and dangerous car. At least on a bike, the rider is incentivised to not crash as it’ll hurt and they have much better visibility of the road/traffic etc.
Mary, who’s been at this a long time, has a couple of good squirrel recipes for you.First, catch your squirrel…
The WECA mayor candidates (perhaps not including Reform candidate Arron Banks) will answer questions at a venue on Avonvale Rd. Hopefully not all about the LTN trial , but no doubt it will be discussed.(tickets free but registration needed)
Yeah, I doubt if Arron Banks would be happy visiting “little Somalia” (as he referred to Bristol) and certainly I don’t think Bristol’s residents would be happy seeing that racist piece of shit
Well they, Jackie and John Cooke, were offered by the DVLA for no extra charge the numberplate JJ64GAS which seems a better and more personalised plate than the one they had originally to me.I don’t know – that seems a bit lame. What’s the “6” doing there?
I’m mainly just playing devil’s advocate here, but the DVLA did seem to be taking the piss by only offering their original purchase price back to them without any accounting for inflation. However, personalised plates are often somewhat tacky, so I don’t have much sympathy for the Cookes either.
Well yes, I read that in the article but who would honestly use the phrase “I’m number one for the Gas”? But give them the benefit of the doubt by all means, maybe they did purchase it genuinely for the reasons stated, but once it’s pointed out, fairly reasonably in my view, that it could be misconstrued as an offensive term, why make such a fuss about wanting to keep it?Probably because they’ve been using it for 30 years and not received any complaints until the DVLA sprung this on them.
If you were a gas-head, what number plate would you choose to advertise the fact?
(Disclaimer: I am not and have never been a Rovers fan)
The approving tone of the coverage there is rather worrying, no? Even describes their decision to screw it to the garden shed as “ingenious”. Absolutely don’t buy it, it’s about as convincing as people wearing golliwog T-shirts and saying it’s because they like jam.However, their story does make sense with the plate supposedly standing for “Number one for the GAS” where “The Gas” is a common description used for Bristol Rovers (e.g fans are gasheads). However, I don’t know the couple so can’t judge their real motivation.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-bus-crashes-bridge-bristol-10103689
That bridge really needs some hi-viz