In local transport, what kills or injures whom? Here's data for Bath and North Somerset from 2019-2023. Unfortunate to see car-pedestrian as the biggest circle. Cycles get a clean sweep. Data from national stats, gratefully compiled by @robintucker1.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social Oxfordshire
When asked why, she talks about her neighbours who are Romainian, Jamaican. She doesn’t want to make them feel like this isn’t their home, that they’re not welcome. Nicola, you’re awesome and make me proud to be British.
At Dad’s so listening to the Jeremy Vine phone in on Radio 2. They’re debating flags. Nicola from Nottingham has just been on; she has house sized union and St George flags which they fly for international sports matches, VE Day etc. She’s not going to fly it any more…
… misleading, let’s say, to repeat the allegation in their review?
I always read your articles Tristan, I know it winds you right up when people don’t 😆 I hadn’t seen the update since this morning though, I’m glad that’s been clarified now. Given that the review’s authors had an explanation for the error in April, it does seem…
I’m struggling to understand why the council are not giving a direct answer, given that it’s already been stated in full council this was a mistake in capitalisation in an answer to a question. Unless there is more to share this feels like a molehill sized mountain, but the headline is out there now
We don’t talk enough about how much of a runaway success this is!
Several adults and kids cycle past a planter with ‘Road Closed’ and ‘Road open to pedestrians, scooters, wheelchairs and bicycles’ signs
Our feeder ride down through the #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood was equally lovely. This 100% wouldn’t have been the safe and lovely ride it was without the traffic filters. Streets for kids! 🖤EBLN
Wow Bristol! #KidicalMass was epic! So wonderful to take the streets back with these kids
A poster for the East Bristol Kidical Mass feeder ride. It shows three children cycling happily along a simple route timeline with the following stops and times: 10:00 Magic Rocket Pre-school, 10:20 Air Balloon School, 10:30 The Avenue, 10:40 Wellspring Surgery, and 11:00 Castle Park. The background is light blue with simple, flat-style illustrations. The title reads “Kidical Mass – East Bristol Feeder Ride – This Saturday.”
🚲 East Bristol Kidical Mass feeder ride – this Saturday!
Join families riding along the Wesley Way to Castle Park to call for safer streets for kids.
Then we roll on to the Festival of Nature 🌿
All welcome!
Route/map: www.justgoride.co.uk/ext/routes/1...
Main event: fb.me/e/5McLfV7tr
Not ideal, but really looking forward to the two improved pedestrian crossings which will be installed - currently crossing to/ from Strawberry Lane is 😱
It’s been a week since the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood six month trial officially began. A long read looking on the range of opinions in the community affected.
Please do read:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Very good, evidence-based comment piece about low-traffic neighbourhoods - and how opponents often use them as a proxy for problems which are caused instead by too many cars.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From a small blue ferry boat, looking ahead a long a sunny canal. There are two swans coming towards the boat, and a bridge in the distance. There are lots of trees lining the water, in full leaf.
Commuting
- Bristol Ferry from Netham Lock
Two planters and three bollards on a residential street. There are dropped curbs in front of the planters.
Pleased to see at least one of the filters in the #EastBristolLivableNeighbourhood repositioned so it’s no longer blocking dropped curbs. Yes, it should never have been installed incorrectly in the first place, but the benefit of the trial is the flexibility to correct mistakes
Are we still debating LTNs? If so, this very thorough meta-study about LTNs in London by @centreforlondon.bsky.social says they are generally more popular than believed, and that there is strong evidence they work well. So there we are.
www.centreforlondon.org/wp-content/u...
My cycle to work today, through low traffic EBLN and the Dings, and then traffic free Castle Park, was idyllic. It might not be Amsterdam, but it’s starting to feel a lot like it 🚲🌳🌷
#EBLN #Bristol
The usual complaint about low traffic neighbourhoods is that they're designed to make posh areas posher by pushing traffic into working class streets. But in Barton Hill, Bristol, where I live, it's that they're picking on a poorer community, creating segregation. It's almost as if they can't win!
A corner on Beaufort Road in the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood. A house has a mural of flowers, there’s a planter with ‘Road Closed’ and ‘Road open to’ signs
Beautiful 🖤EBLN
www.linktr.ee/supportebln
A Bristol Ferry boat at Netham Lock, Bristol
The Netham commuter ferry is back for another year ⛴️
www.bristolferry.com/waterbus/net...
A boy and a bike reflected in a puddle.
Tony Scott cycling through Hartlepool looking fresh-faced and youthful.
Now watching: ‘Boy and Bicycle’, dir. Ridley Scott, 1965, starring Tony Scott (the director of Top Gun!) as a schoolboy who skives off school and spends the day cycling around Hartlepool. 🎥🎬
Poster featuring a photo of four people riding bicycles. Text: You'd be better on a bicycle. Still the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
A pint can of Streets Ahead hazy IPA at Left Handed Giant taproom
Had to try this at Left Handed Giant taproom in Bristol
@podstreetsahead.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social @nedboulting.bsky.social
A slide of a modal filter in London. It has gardens and seating
Lots of great examples of delivered schemes in the UK.
He makes clear that network level planning means LTNs or whatever you want to call them are ESSENTIAL. You can't deliver everything via bike lanes.
Looking down Beaufort Road in St George, Bristol. The picture shows a section closed to traffic, with children chalking and playing in the road.
The #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood #EBLN has tamed Beaufort Road to the point that we’ve been able to restart our #PlayStreet @playingout.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
Bristol Cycling Campaign did a poll recently that asked what colour bike infrastructure should be to clearly delineate it from road space or general pavement.
The main suggestions are:
GREEN
RED
YELLOW (buff)
BLUE
Which is your personal preference and why?
Red, because it’s already in use in Bristol and is internationally understood to mean ‘bike lane’ thanks to the Dutch. More important than any particular colour though is agreeing one nationally so it makes sense wherever you are. I’d like ATE to be deciding this rather than Bristol
The river Avon from the Crews Hole river path in Bristol. It’s a gray mid-winter day, but the red dogwood and orange willow are colourful against the dusky browns of the woods in the background.
Appreciating the colours of winter, all the more beautiful for their scarcity.
#Bristol
A man rides in the bucket of a cargo bike while another man rides.
Pearl Jam guitar tech Jeff Ousley pilots frontman Eddie Vedder on a beer run before one of their shows.
#BicycleBirthday Eddie Vedder
#BornOnThisDay December 23, 1964
