While obviously we don't use in trains and resent the fact that after privatisation the amount of our road tax spent on subsidising this form of transport has actually massively increased, we were at least pleased to see [...]
Fun in the Forest
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, January 30, 2011
We're a bit concerned about government plans to privatise the forests. This is not because we have taken up mountain biking -even though we appreciate such activities do not get in our way, we fear that they encourage the [...]
race on rain
Posted by Kimberly
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GIULIETTA HDR
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; } GIULIETTA HDR, originally uploaded by penn84^^. [...]
Sleeping with the enemy
Posted by Kimberly
We at Bristol Traffic never hesitate to drive where others may fear to tread in the pursuit of truth and justice for motorists. It is in no small part to our fearless reporting that the war on the motorist is finally being won but are always keeping [...]
Jan 30: republic day
Posted by Kimberly
We are the only mass media outlet in Britain campaigning for Jan 30 to be celebrated as the day Britain became a republic, or at least a Commonwealth. No-one else mentions that on this day, King Charles I of England was [...]
Red Bull? We thought they were on our side!
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, January 29, 2011
A reader, "O.M.", tips us off with the breaking news that Red Bull are sponsoring a bike race up Park Street on Saturday night, Jan 29 at 19:00.This sounds quite fun, we thought we could join in with the van. We swing past [...]
Bike Parking Rollout
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, January 28, 2011
The long awaited bike parking on buildout rollout is taking place. King Street EastThis is in addition to the existing King Street area, next to the traffic warden writing a ticket. Just off Park Street in Park Street Avenue [...]
North Fringe Route Update
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, January 27, 2011
Both cyclists who read this site will be interested to hear that the North Fringe cycle route, linking Abbey Wood with the Farm Pub, will be installed this weekend; the schedule still says "February". Here is the view from [...]
Steam punk concept motorcycle art by Kevin Mowrer
Posted by Kimberly
Kevin Mowrer art. Spaceships and robots too!Keywords: steampunk concept motorcycle art meta-story creator consultant and lecturer emmy and gemini award winning producer writer artist illustrator designer kevin mowrer with [...]
A darkness over clifton
Posted by Kimberly
Aberdeen Road, Cotham. A one way street with the main entrance on Hampton Road, just past the car parked by the dropped-kerb build out with its hazard lights on. A bicycle locked to the road sign. We've covered this road [...]
A38 update
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, January 24, 2011
After putting up an article on The Fringe hairdressers, we got some odd search traffic hitting us, people asking questions about the death of a hairdresser on Cheltenham Road. We know nothing about it, except that the fringe [...]
Progress in Oregon
Posted by Kimberly
Oregon is usually held up as the hope of cycling in "the third world", a part of the US that has returned to bicycles. For us, the motorists, it is part of the front line of the backlash. This is why were an early supporter [...]
Concept vehicles by Matthew C. Barrett
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, January 23, 2011
M.C. BARRETT concept art. Get his sketchbook!Keywords: digital concept vehicle art illustration design by matthew c barrett mc barrett cars and rockets mostly sketchbook concept art bellevue washington artist at arenanet [...]
AA in stokes croft
Posted by Kimberly
Lovely to see the AA van EU08CMD out rescuing someone whose car had broken down in the stokes croft "bike lane"We use quotes around "bike lane" as we have never once seen a cyclist using it.We do not understand why not, [...]
Mercedes GTK vehicle concept by Pascal Eggert
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, January 22, 2011
iPeg on deviantart.Keywords: all terrain armored desert snow all wheel drive atv military camouflage mercedes gtk concept vehicle with gun turret art design automotive render illustrations by from pascal eggert guns futuristic [...]
Cyclists: losers or gentry?
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, January 21, 2011
Our coverage of cycle-friendly hairdressers in Cheltenham Road raised a comment from a known subversive: are cyclists therefore gentry? Good point. We hadn't considered the origin of the word gentrification before now.Really important people: they drive.Poor, [...]
Adventures in the scaffolding trade
Posted by Kimberly
Cycling down from Kingsland Road bridge, one can often see two fully laden scaffold trucks skillfully parked on double-yellow lines close to the junction with Sussex Street providing passing cyclists and drivers with an [...]
Abbeywood week, a discussion
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, January 20, 2011
Yesterday we mentioned that one problem with parking on the abbeywood cycle paths was not just the new bollards, it was harassment from cyclists. Here, sadly, we have an example.This is V134DYC, a lorry minding its own business, [...]
Abbeywood: West Side Bollard Run
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, January 19, 2011
We sent our expendable cyclist up to Abbeywood again to see the other side of the MoD site/car park. Sadly, our fellow traveller, Kayla Maratty, would have been on her four week holiday, so if she's a UWE student, she wouldn't have got a chance to run [...]
Welcome to Bristol, Kayla Maratty!
Posted by Kimberly
We are pleased to welcome Bristol 24-7's correspondent, Kayla Maratty, who provides a well argued explanation of why cyclists deserve to be run over in her article "My homicidal tendencies towards cyclists". Kayla manages to completely summarise how [...]
Abbeywood Bollards: they don't help motorists
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Having looked at the bollards, we are not sure whether we support them. Not because they can injure cyclists, but because they prevent motor vehicle access to the bike paths. We paid for them, we should get to use them!Here, for example, is a South Gloucester [...]
Abbey Wood Bike/pedestrian path changes
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, January 17, 2011
We've sent the team to the North Fringe for a few days, to see what the fuss is about regarding Abbeywood and Bollards. In order to cover this accurately, we have had to recruit someone on a bicycle, for which we apologise. If it makes the audience feel [...]
Clifton's Road Theft
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, January 16, 2011
Dichohecho sends us a pointer to their photo of Oakfield Place, taken from us tax payers, and turned into a bicycle parking area. by dichohecho This is not just a secret rat run from St Pauls Road [...]
Ferrari Testarossa
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; } Ferrari Testarossa, originally uploaded by TomA [...]
Dakar 2011 - Carlos Sainz
Posted by Kimberly
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Corvette Racing ZR1
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; } Corvette Racing ZR1, originally uploaded by red [...]
Glasgow
Posted by Kimberly
Only last week were were criticising Bristol's town planners for a lack of vision in the 1970s, for a failure to regenerate the neglected inner city by building enough motorways through its core. We only have the M32. One [...]
The Friday Quiz - Who are the Sleepers?
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, January 13, 2011
It's over, of course, the Cold War. But the legacy remains.This map is a Soviet rendition of Bristol. Before the Glorious Cumberland Basin intersection was built. Note the existing railway route through the docks and the [...]
Jamaica Street: more hints of Waltham Forest
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Our next video of the tour of the RPZ shows the Stokes Croft end of Dighton Street - Jamaica Street. Again, it's Walthamization is ongoing. This road marks the border between Kingsdown and the part of the city where work takes place -and that means vans [...]
Dighton Street: An update
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, January 11, 2011
We are busy watching the Walthamization of Dighton Street -all is going well, at least according to this video.this time not only is another car parked outside Pizza Go-Go in the bike lane, showing how bike lanes benefit takeaways by providing somewhere [...]
Spyker C8 - Le Mans 2008 - Dunlop
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; } Spyker C8 - Le Mans 2008 - Dunlop, originally uploaded [...]
