Now that Christmas is over, and most of the left-overs eaten, only the least appealing of the Quality Streets are left in the packet here at Bristol Traffic (we've got some Celebrations, but we're hanging on the them for [...]
Distorted Reality
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, December 26, 2010
We've been emailed a peculiar image. We're unsure whether it reflects the state of the photographer's mind at the time, or is just an attempt at being arty.We note, however, that the yellow car is parked at an angel in the [...]
Bristol Engineering Projects - Merry Christmas
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, December 24, 2010
This is the season of Christmas cheer, so spare a thought for Bristol City Council's "Bristol Engineering Projects Team". This secretive bunch are the people who put the traffic lights in our roads and re-design our junctions. [...]
RAC visiting the White Bear
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, December 22, 2010
We like coverage of pubs, today, the White Bea, which: is in the student quarter has free wifihas a big white bear statue in front of it and one painted further up the wall.has an RAC van up on the pavement in front of it [...]
Family Cycling vs S Gloucs
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Shocking footage of an entire family's collection of bicycles, up in the North Fringe, at a secret (as in "official secret protected by the official secrets act") location.What's surprising is that they managed to get there, [...]
Chris Cold concept vehicle art
Posted by Kimberly
Chris on deviantart and conceptships.Keywords: digital car with sunset automobile sci-fi science fiction environmental art illustration design drawings renders by chris cold deviantart portfolio selections a cold dying [...]
Push back the darkness
Posted by Kimberly
Today, December 21 is the solstice, when the night is longest, the day the coldest.This year we are reminded, as it is as cold and grim as places north, like Birmingham and Leeds.The Christians have been saying we, the British, have forgotten the reason [...]
Concept vehicle art by Pascal Eggert
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, December 20, 2010
iPeg on deviantart.Keywords: all terrain armored desert snow all wheel drive concept vehicle with gun turret art design automotive render illustrations by from pascal eggert designing firearms for video games in 3d three [...]
Midnight cruise
Posted by Kimberly
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Midnight cruise, originally uploaded by Danny Kadarisman. Peugeot [...]
Aston Martin Vantage
Posted by Kimberly
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Aston Martin Vantage, originally uploaded by PS [...]
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento 2013
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, December 18, 2010
At the presentation of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale at Frankfurt Motor Show, Lamborghini announced that the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento will be produced and will be available in 2013The Lamborghini [...]
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento 2013
Posted by Kimberly
At the presentation of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale at Frankfurt Motor Show, Lamborghini announced that the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento will be produced and will be available in 2013The Lamborghini [...]
Feedback and the implications for SITA S788NNK
Posted by Kimberly
Our coverage of one truck driver giving the pedestrians the abuse they deserve has proved very poplar. We know this as Youtube sent us an email saying "your video might be eligible for the YouTube Partnership Programme, which allows you to make money [...]
Pago seguro de coche por meses en www.tussegurosdecoche.com
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, December 17, 2010
Tener un coche conlleva ciertas obligaciones, entre ellas, tener un seguro. Esto, como es lógico, tiene un coste en algunos casos más que considerable y que cuando se presenta en casa no siempre lo hace en el momento más [...]
Harbour Frozen
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, December 16, 2010
The view by the Nova Scotia pub this week shows the harbour has a hint of Auld Scotia in it.The ice is not quite thick enough to walk or drive on. Which makes us realise that it is time to get out the old plans to tarmac [...]
A local driving school discusses the highway code
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Our coverage of the anti-car streets of Horfield generated some comments from 2nd2none driving school, who seemed to misinterpret our photos of one of their instructors cars parked on the pavement as some form of criticism. [...]
Safe Protesting during the winter months
Posted by Kimberly
Given the fact that the students and the schoolkids are now out protesting -often after dark- we need to think how to deal with more pedestrians on the road.Here we see some of the students outside the Senate House, Tyndall's [...]
Sense at last
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, December 13, 2010
Common sense seems almost to have returned to Bristol City Council following their unsuccessful attempt to turn Bristol into a 'Cycling City'.Whilst we object to not being able to park the Bentley in Boyce's Avenue during [...]
Mack Sztaba concept vehicle
Posted by Kimberly
More of mack's work on mackart.ca. Check him on conceptships.Keywords: concept 3d loader vehicle design work by polish born mack sztaba specializes in concept art but continues to work as a freelance illustrator mainly with [...]
Nisa Today's drivers shows their awareness of pedestrians
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, December 12, 2010
While in London the cyclist campaigners mourn the fact that HGV drivers are often oblivious to cyclists, in Bristol the large delivery vehicles are aware of more vulnerable road users, and rather than use their indicators [...]
Ford Fiesta WRC Rally 3
Posted by Kimberly
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ford Fiesta WRC Rally 3, originally uploaded by [...]
Bentley Continental GTC Speed
Posted by Kimberly
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bentley Continental GTC Speed, originally uploaded [...]
1969 Mustang Boss 302
Posted by Kimberly
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 1969 Mustang Boss 302, originally uploaded by b [...]
Wouldn't hang around the student quarter in a car like that
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, December 11, 2010
Dru Marland emails us to say she spotted this important car parked outside Clifton Down shopping centre at Whteladies Gate on Friday, less than 24 hours after an uncontrolled mob of students attacked a Royal Family RR in [...]
Tiley of Bristol embrace Cycle City Hartcliffe Way
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, December 10, 2010
Hartcliffe Way, the southern bit of the A4174 ring road. Now, with the cycle city program, with a bike path along it. How will the people use it? Well, we don't care about pedestrians or cyclists, because, well, they aren't [...]
Student Coverage
Posted by Kimberly
Someone sent us some photos of horses -and you know our feelings about them- blocking Park Street while some pedestrians argue with them. We aren't going to put them up as the process of anonymising the pictures is too tricky [...]
Aberdeen Good, Bristol Stupid
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Here's a photo one of our roving reporters took.Of Aberdeen.Notice how carefully, and sensibly this city has been planned, unlike Bristol.There's a railway for poor people to use, a proper road for real people to use, and [...]
Fraternal Greetings to our Aberdeen Franchise
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The BBC has some excellent coverage of the anti-car experience in Scotland, where some people are being forced to use the (minimal) underground system round Glasgow, rather than drive. This saddens us.We are pleased, therefore to announce our own contribution [...]
Making Echelon Parking Safer
Posted by Kimberly
A lot of cyclists complain about "Echelon parking" as the cars and vans reversing out can hit cyclists. Our solution: ban cyclists, isn't being taken up, here on Whiteladies Road, so alternative solutions are being investigated.We [...]
Roundabout work #3: WR08ADK pays the wing mirror tax
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, December 6, 2010
Here's the next in our St Michael's Hill Roundabout series, this time looking at how a single cyclist trying to use the route can cause mayhem and destruction.Normally when the bicycle/wingmirror collision is discussed, [...]
Roundabout work #2: 08:17
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, December 4, 2010
Once the mercedes that blocked vehicles getting off the roundabout had cleared it, vehicles wanting to get onto St Michael's Hill could pull out, and here see the correct tactic: stop cars getting onto the roundabout. It's [...]
Roundabout work #1: 08:15
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, December 3, 2010
08:15 to 08:16 on the top of St Michael's Hill.First a car with a Montpelier-MOT wingmirror duct-taped into place. Someone just horned it as to get to this part of the junction (see on the dashed lines) it had to sprint [...]
Slix Week 5
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, December 2, 2010
OK, so we know Slix is good (and to avoid any press complaints of bias we'll probably cover the other eateries and massage parlours of Stoke Croft in future editions).We know that, as a convenient and iconic food outlet, [...]
Absolute Vehicle Care Ltd, selling Alloy wheels to outsiders who inconvenience us
Posted by Kimberly
Dear info@absolutevehiclecare.com. Thank you for posting your comment on our alloy wheels are for outsiders posting.We are aware that we are the highest ranked site when you search blogspot for alloy wheels, and therefore that a comment with some banal [...]
Slix Week 4
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Mini-cabs are one thing, but they are nothing in comparison to real cabbies.A real taxi can use a bus lane, park in a cycle lane, and even go through no-entry signs (if you know the right routes).Here though we see one visiting [...]
