Some sanity at last, in the publication of findings from the public consultation over plans for mashing up the cycle expressway into town and ripping up the hedgerows in Greenbank.
It seems that enough people have objected to possibly make a difference to the development.
Bristol City Council Consultation Findings
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Tuesday 10 March 2009
i-spy
I'm not the sort of sad sack to go around photographing every car I see parked on a cycle lane or pavement. Life's too short. However, on a short trip into the city and back today, chief i-spy spotted the following:
- A taxi sailing through a red light, seconds after I'd crossed the road. Incredulous, I checked again to see if the lights had just changed back to green, but no. Beware these colourblind missiles of death.
- Half a dozen lorries parked on the entire pavement, making everyone walk in the road.
- The lights at Bristol Bridge signal green for cyclists, directing them straight into the path of pedestrians crossing over the road, also on a green light.
- This 4 x 4 parked on a cycle lane outside a hairdresser.
- This car parked on the pavement outside a launderette.
- This ve hickle, designed for the plains of Montana, dumped on the pavement like a warthog on a sixpence.
- A taxi sailing through a red light, seconds after I'd crossed the road. Incredulous, I checked again to see if the lights had just changed back to green, but no. Beware these colourblind missiles of death.
- Half a dozen lorries parked on the entire pavement, making everyone walk in the road.
- The lights at Bristol Bridge signal green for cyclists, directing them straight into the path of pedestrians crossing over the road, also on a green light.
- This 4 x 4 parked on a cycle lane outside a hairdresser.
- This car parked on the pavement outside a launderette.
- This ve hickle, designed for the plains of Montana, dumped on the pavement like a warthog on a sixpence.
Thursday 5 March 2009
Accoutrements
The world would be a different place if motorists had to take a huge padlock and chain, or massive D-lock, everywhere they went. Arriving at a supermarket this morning, I realised that I hadn't brought my lock with me. It didn't use to be a concern when I had a D-lock fitted in a bracket on the bike, but I don't anymore, so I have to remember to take a lock with me, which I hadn't.
What to do ? Ask the charity collector in the foyer to mind it ? Bother a security guard ? I put it in a corner, near a payphone, had a glance around to see if there was anyone around likely to nick it, then dashed in for a speed shop. It might have cost only £50 second-hand ten years ago, but to an opportunist ?
It must be hell to have a bike worth something. You'd need a lock worth the same again.
And let there be lights !
What if motorists had to take a pair of front and a pair of back headlights around with them, removing and attaching them every time they parked ? And what if bikes had built in lights, front and rear, mounted in the frame and pedal powered ? Not for £50 perhaps.
What to do ? Ask the charity collector in the foyer to mind it ? Bother a security guard ? I put it in a corner, near a payphone, had a glance around to see if there was anyone around likely to nick it, then dashed in for a speed shop. It might have cost only £50 second-hand ten years ago, but to an opportunist ?
It must be hell to have a bike worth something. You'd need a lock worth the same again.
And let there be lights !
What if motorists had to take a pair of front and a pair of back headlights around with them, removing and attaching them every time they parked ? And what if bikes had built in lights, front and rear, mounted in the frame and pedal powered ? Not for £50 perhaps.
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