Zig A Zag

This thoughtless cyclist has locked his bike to the bike stand outside Tesco in Redfield, thereby preventing passenger access to the car parked on the zig-zag lines approaching the crossing.

Tunnel Vision

The first time I cycled through this tunnel on the Bristol-Bath cyclepath about twenty years ago, it fair blew my mind. It didn't have any lights back then, so you really had to concentrate on the light at the end of the tunnel. Besides that nice metaphor, on a hot sunny day the experience was and still is, like cycling through a fridge.

Mr Brown Bag

Yes Mr Brown Bag, I'm taking a piccie of you and your car, parked on a double yellow line at 9 a.m. on Church Road. Stay where you are, and hopefully you'll get squashed by a bus.

Take a stand

I might moan about pathetic cycle parking facilities at major supermarkets, that's because they're multinational corporations that are happy to dedicate acres to car parking, but one thing that's never bothered me cycling around this city daily for over a decade, is a lack of places to leave my bike.

The council, however, have decided that it's a good idea to liberally sprinkle the pavements in East Bristol with unnecessary bike stands, adding to the already stupidly cluttered street furniture that includes 10 ft tall metal poles with postage stamp-sized signs on top and signs informing motorists that they're leaving a 20 mph zone and entering, um, a 20 mph zone. Doh !

110 Days

110 days since travelling by car.

Shouldn't I get some sort of rebate ?

20 mph Ph.D.

Are you sitting comfortably ?

This is a 20 mph sign at the end of Edward Street as it enters Church Road, Redfield, next to the Chinese takeaway, indicating that this stretch of Church Road is 20 mph. Right ?



Wrong. This sign, 50 metres away, at the end of Verrier Road, by The Old Bank, shows the end of a 20 mph Zone as you enter Church Road. Or does it ? Surely, that's what a crossed out 20 means, with the words 'Zone Ends'. So what's with the other 20 in the red circle ? Perhaps the speed limit's still 20, but the 20 mph zone has ended. Uh ?

I knew I should have taken a Ph.D. in street furniture.

No matter, this lunchtime, a police car sped up Church Road on the wrong side at 80 mph, without siren or lights, which at least gives the impression that everyone else is doing under 20.

April Fool

Judging by the speed of traffic on this stretch of Church Road, Redfield, the 20 mph sign must be some kind of April Fool's joke.