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Bill Bailey as the leader of the campaign?
We saw Bill Bailey when we were visiting friends (who used to live in Bristol) in Brisbane, Australia. However we felt a bit cheated when he said during his act (Tinselworm, IIRC) that he was from London.
chrisonabike wrote:
I’m not sure that’s in their policies (but somehow they do keep attracting people who make racist statements or do racist things). Copying Trump (or at least following his lead or crediting him) appears to be universal. (I’m daily expecting statements from Cycling Uk saying “Thanks to President Trump we’ve been able to get 0.2 miles of cycle lanes installed in Hove…”). Even the Russians want to be *seen* to be nodding along. In fact now the entire world is doing the same – trying to get US sanctions (tariffs) lifted and a new trade deal…Isn’t it racism and copying Trump?
There’s plenty of people/places that recognise that Trumpian “policies” are just a disaster in waiting. Just look at the Canadian Conservative Party for an example of the electorate very firmly telling them “no”.
Reform seem to be staying in a B&B while they decide what (if anything) they stand for.Isn’t it racism and copying Trump?
The road is for the grown-ups to drive their cars on , little Jimmy. Now off you pop to your little patch of mud.Plan to build cycle mud track in Crowle, near Worcester
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25143631.plan-build-cycle-mud-track-crowle-near-worcester/
We let cars go everywhere so that kids can go nowhere
bensynnock wrote:
Surely the main problem with the rainbow cycle path is that you can never reach the end.And you have to avoid all those bloody leprechauns running around.
Two articles about the plan
Two articles about the plan to paint Bristolian cycle lanes red:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bike-lanes-bristol-painted-red-10166848
Seems like the lanes are so confusing that even an otter got lost in Broadmead:
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/an-otter-was-caught-scampering-around-broadmead/
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.