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Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Death on Fishponds Road
Posted by Kimberly
This was an awful thing to happen, an awful thing to see. Junaid's friends and family were there -all of them utterly devastated. He left to go to school at Filton College, and instead of coming home after another day at school, he never came back. All his dreams are gone, all that is left are memories.
Every time his family leave the house, they are going to pass the place where this child -their son, their brother, their cousin - died.
It was really heartbreaking to be here, I tried really hard to get a photo of the flower and not all the friends and family, -as that wasn't right. They were very welcoming, but it's hard to cover this. No schoolkids should be placing flowers to mourn the needless death of one of their friends.
Afterwards, I went down Fishponds Road -never fun- then turned into Roygate Lane, then onto the railway path. Suddenly I'd gone from the friends and family mourning the death of a sixteen year old to the late summer peace and pleasantness of an almost Dutch walking and cycling route into the city. Yet what point is it in having such a lovely facility if you can't even get across a road 300 metres away alive?
Our normal service will be resumed in a few days. In the meantime, there is a growing monument in Fishponds to a failure of the entire "road safety" industry. Consider visiting it.
Welcome Back
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, September 27, 2010
Bristol is a Universities City!
So it's great to welcome back our important student population at this time of year.
Of course, to achieve a place at any University you need hard work, intelligence and determination. And probably parents with the same qualities, but we'll let that debate simmer in the main-stream press.
Here we see what could be intelligent students arriving (or possibly retuning), helped out by their intelligent parents (we refer to the cars, not the residents of Clifton navigating a route between them).
How do we know this?
Well, it's because of their amazing assimilation of Bristol's unique parking rules within hours of arriving in the City. Yes, the cars may sport number plates such as CE08WZC and CA09OKD, both apparently purchased in Llandow (that's in Wales, for those of you who failed Geography GCSE), but the entire family have worked out, within minutes of arriving, that:
1. In Bristol pavement parking is the norm.
and
2. In Bristol parking on Zig-Zags is the norm. Even within spitting distance of a local Police Station, and for ages (check the exif time flags of the photos if you like - I managed to eat Tiger Prawns and consume a pint between clicks). The synchronised hazard warning lights are a neat trick, too.
We welcome this fresh influx of intelligencia to our flock, and encourage them to use our cycle lanes for parking, our pavements for parking, and our Downs for parking.
Remember, these students are the makers and shakers of the future - we ignore them at our peril. Thank goodness they didn't turn up here with bicycles.
New Audi Cars Concept
Posted by Kimberly
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Western Power Distribution: showing who has the power in Abbey Wood
Posted by Kimberly
Parking over a bike/pedestrian path like this is not just about getting your car off the road, or away from the double yellows, it's about making a statement. It says I am important, you are not. Which is why we are very worried about some worrying emails we are are being forwarded from the MOD-land. Very worried indeed. More another day. Today though, we, the motorist, are in charge. First we give them their bike lanes, their pavements, to get them out the way, then we use them too. Lovely.
Secret Clifton Down Shopping Centre Parking
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, September 26, 2010
This will let you combine a swift pint or two in the beer garden with some Saturday shopping, without having to deal with the shopping centre's own car park, or the now-paid-for railway parking area.
Box Clever
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, September 25, 2010
Even for tax dodging cyclists (ho-ho: serves them right for living in a 'Cycling City'). Notice the problem here? Yep, two bikes chained together due to lack of parking facilities. Poor souls.
So it's nice to see tax-payer funded facilities being made use of by honest traders, instead of freeloading, benefit scrounging anarchists trying to park their 'vehicles'.
Phone 9211942 for further information.
Lamborghini truck
Posted by Kimberly
Lamborghini truck |
But what many people do not know is that the Italian car company once tried with an SUV. Lamborghini Lm-002 was made ??from 1986-1993.
Named Rambo Lambo LM-002, were made 301 Truks .
YA55VDY in Monty
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, September 24, 2010
Narrow Pavements
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, September 23, 2010
After all, we never know when a pedestrian may accidentally step off one. Or worse still, a cyclist might find it too narrow to ride on and have to use our roads.
Luckily, T759PDA shows us the solution.
If it's narrow, park on it.
That way, if we hit a pushchair in the road it'll be the pedestrian's fault, not ours.
Pedestrians. We know they are unimportant... but they can be dangerous.
Helmetless
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Police on the downs again
Posted by Kimberly
British School of Motoring: teaching you how to shop
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Returning to the car, look how perfectly it is aligned with the pavement, the wheels perfectly straight. That is skilled parking!
Toyota Auris Hybrid pricing announced (UK)
Posted by Kimberly
Mid-spec T4 adds 'T4 89g' standard equipment plus 17" alloy wheels for £19,200.
Cotham Hill update: Fredwood Forestry takes our side
Posted by Kimberly
A van with the Del Monte man hat was out this morning, but the camera was playing up, so no photo.
Monty Month: Trouble in Picton Square and Picton Street
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, September 20, 2010
Cotham Hill: the front line
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, September 19, 2010
This why were are pleased to see these signs warning that the bike parking at the bottom of Cotham Hill is being removed. Here you can see the signs on the bike stands which are forcing the white van WP55NNM to park on double yellow lines, rather than this lovely buildout.
Secret Castle Park Paveparking
Posted by Kimberly
If Cabot Circus super car-park is a bit full, you can always opt for Castle Park any Saturday afternoon. Hide it under any nearby tree and your vehicle will become invisible.
Stokes Croft World record attempt?
Posted by Kimberly
Someone better call those nice folks at Guinness World Records and ask them if six cars blocking the cycle lane and parking on double yellow lines is some kind of record. As the late Roy Castle used to sing about at the end of the 70's show, Record Breakers, you need dedication. Well, here's every Bristol cyclists favourite cycle lane in Stokes Croft going for gold by having the most vehicles blocking the cycle lane at once. Must be some kind of record. Unless, of course, you know better:)...
Free Bristol Primark Parking
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, September 18, 2010
It's still the case today, as we motorists create useful employment in a range of workplaces from car-washes to hospitals. But the respect has gone. Even the city council will only allow tax-dodging cyclists and pedestrians the freedom to turn from Haymarket into the Horsefair.
forcing any cyclists to dismount as a demonstration of respect.
More Salsa issues
Posted by Kimberly
Art of the Possible said...
"Be it St Pauls ... or St Werburgh's."That's OK. We celebrate dissent, though we do add your names and comments to a spreadsheet, just to make sure it stays within clearly defined limits -and that when you cross them we know how to find you. Just remember there's a monument at the top of St Michael's Hill to where protestant dissenters were burned alive in the time of Queen Mary I, and you'll know what we're thinking of when people start criticising us too much.
Maybe I've been taking the same stuff as your Monotonix videoist, but these two film clips look like the same place to me.
Reviewing the videos, yes, our IT minions had mistakenly put up two videos of St Werburgh's and none of St Pauls. To compensate, as well as beating them soundly, we made them put up some St Pauls photos and videos.
Again, a lack of respect for us, the motorist, shows.
Do they pay tax? Do they have insurance? Yet the pedestrians walk and the horseriders ride around our city as if it were made for them.
The AA say zombies are a problem -we say it's salsa dancers
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, September 17, 2010
Well, yes, there is a special zombie event in the city scheduled for this weekend -2.8 hours later.
But: how often do you see zombies in the way? Where is the defensible data?
All the AA have is the insurance claims from the subset of people who insure their car -and then the subset who insure with the AA- and those people are financially motivated to blame the pedestrians rather than saying they were distracted by the phone call they were making.
Furthermore, what does the AA know about zombies? What kind of zombies? Are we talking 1973 US-shopping-mall class zombie, or a modern 28-days later or Evil Dead 2 class of Zombie? Different, the latter are much harder to kill and far more dangerous to us car drivers. They are harder to run over and they can jump in through your window and try and bite your neck out, at least according to the film's we've seen.
We do like to consider ourselves Britain's premier data-driven traffic news site. We back up our claims with defensible data -photos and videos-, and we like to tie it in to current scientific thinking. Which is where we have to criticise the AA. We have yet to see any Zombies in our streets.
All we have is a truck parked in the showcase bus route on Gloucester Road one morning with an advert for Virgin Trains on it "Don't Go Zombie" -yet it implies that the zombie are in the cars, on the M5, not stuck somewhere near Sheffield on the one daily Virgin XC train to Scotland, or roaming our streets endangering car drivers.
We also have the scientific research behind zombies, behind their decision making. The AA: not a thing, just some comments about insurance claims. This misses out on this seminal presentation on Zombie walking/climbing algorithms, how zombies can choose to attack on trajectories which are hard for us, the humans, to predict, yet which are fairly easy for subhuman intelligences to come up with.
This is the best ever paper on Zombie routing algorithms ever written, yet the AA doesn't even bother to cite it or discuss its implication for vehicle-assisted-driving technologies. This makes us suspect that the AA and its "independent" traffic science group are just making things up to suit their prejudices.
Being a scientifically focused, data-driven group, we are therefore pleased to announce that we do have hard proof that Samba Bands are a bigger problem on our streets, be it St Paul's
or St Werburgh's
That's two videos of Samba bands blocking our streets. None of Zombies. And a citation of the best ever paper on Zombie routing to date.
When will the AA notice this growing problem and issue a press release denouncing Samba bands? Months after us, we expect. And even then, it will not be from in-the-field monitoring of near-miss incidents, but purely by people claiming for damaged caused to their cars by uninsured samba bands.
Mike Hill's concept vehicle art
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, September 16, 2010
Keywords: concept art vehicle cars military transport design by from mike hill of freefall graphics freelance designer amsterdam works for various clients mainly in the games industry always looking to take on new and exciting projects futuristic formula race car in hangar
Secret College Green Parking
Posted by Kimberly