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Stokes Croft -it looks differently abnormal
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, May 28, 2011
As someone pointed out on our coverage of Picton Lane: The croft is never normal, not by the standards of the rest of society. On the streets fest day, it's just differently abnormal, in a way that didn't make the national [...]
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festival,
jamaica-street,
kings-square,
stokes-croft
Stokes Croft: the street fest
Posted by Kimberly
People say to us "did you nip over to the Stokes Croft streetfest on your day off from driving a van round the city"We reply "Those of us who work in the Bristol sex-trade supply chain don't consider Saturdays a rest day [...]
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A38,
cheltenham-road,
festival,
paveparking,
stokes-croft
Concept vehicle art by John Frye
Posted by Kimberly on Tuesday, May 24, 2011
John's blogspot. John will have some work in the new Masters Of Chickenscratch book.Keywords: concept automobile vehicle design illustration gallery by john frye features from masters of chicken scratch vol. volume 2 two [...]
The AA street watch
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, May 21, 2011
Apparently the AA were doing some study last week, trying get some statistics on what people in cities do that is technically "illegal", despite the war on motorists being over.We think their crowd-sourced approach, while [...]
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AA,
datamining,
st-michaels-hill
Bristol's Balloon Problem
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, May 20, 2011
Sometimes the congestion in the city is so bad that people take to the air, but if you try that in a helicopter you soon discover that not only is the cost of fuel excessive, everyone on the ground assumes that there's trouble [...]
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balloons,
cotham,
cotham-road,
RPZ
Lamborghini cars wallpaper
Posted by Kimberly

Lamborghini c [...]
Lamborghini cars wallpaper
Posted by Kimberly

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It isn't enough -the freedom of freeways
Posted by Kimberly on Thursday, May 19, 2011
Our main reason for a trip to the US was to learn from the road builders. Just as the cycling activists go to Denmark and the Netherlands, we, along with the West of England Partnership, head to America.Look at this scene: [...]
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abroad,
motorway,
out-of-city
Facebook Issues
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Bristol Traffic team met many of our strategic partners in California, too many to mention. One thing we will flag up is our concerns about the Facebook visit. The Non-Disclosure Agreement prevents any discussion about [...]
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abroad,
datamining
More News
Posted by Kimberly
Luckily, we were parked up on the pavement today, so we're in the clear, but we've just received this from the Police:"Police are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road traffic collision on the St James Barton roundabout in [...]
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accidents,
bearpit,
bond-street-south
At the junction of Google and Ampitheater
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, May 16, 2011
Over in Waltham Forest, Freewheeler has been expressing some concerns about google.We too have issues, which, during the teams visit to our strategic partners in California, also cause us to question our long term relationship [...]
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abroad,
datamining,
employee-cycling,
USA
Does extra parking calm traffic? Yes
Posted by Kimberly on Saturday, May 14, 2011
We're going to be looking at the Clifton "calming traffic through more parking" plans, to show that this isn't really a self-centred proposal by the Clifton Parking Faction (our comrades, the Keep Parking Free team), but instead a dedicated attempt to [...]
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junction-blocking,
L-plate,
muller-road,
shaldon-road,
traffic-calming
BRI parking issues on Southwell Street
Posted by Kimberly
Someone cornered a team member a few weeks back and said "where are the secret plans for Southwell Street?". We forwarded them on, but are still waiting back for the note the police stuck through their door advising them [...]
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BRI,
parking,
shared-space,
southwell-street,
st-michaels-hill
News update
Posted by Kimberly
The team is being too lazy to do some serious reporting right now, but here are some news updates.1. Crap Walking And Cycling in Waltham Forest is offline, along with all its artwork. While some people discuss why this is the case, and consider whether [...]
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A38,
A4174,
bbc,
crap-cycling-waltham-forest,
M32,
walthamization
Aurelien Francois concept vehicle
Posted by Kimberly on Friday, May 13, 2011
Concept art by Aurelien Francois. Cool new automobile company Local Motors is holding Terra Prix 2085, a Concept Art Design competition, will challenge the imagination of designers and celebrate great conceptual design. [...]
Paying the Wingmirror and Bodywork taxes in one go.
Posted by Kimberly on Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Field Operative "TH" emails this photo of trouble on Bond Street South, outside the new Future Inns Hotel/Phoenix Court BCC Offices heading towards the Underpass in Temple Way at 5:00pm 10th May.Delivery driver in the Mercedes [...]
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bond-street-south,
crash,
firstbus,
white-van,
wing-mirrors
Concept vehicle art by Nick Carver
Posted by Kimberly on Monday, May 9, 2011
Nick's blogspot. Check conceptships and tanks.Keywords: digital tablet heavy industrial vehicle equipment concept art by nick carver mechanical technical industrial design concept all terrain steampunk vehicle design gopher [...]
Cheltenham Road Parking issues
Posted by Kimberly
Now that the police have gone, the bikes and bus lanes have returned to their key role in the city: providing parking.Here we see the outside of Uplands Mobile Multimedia, vendor of sound systems for cars. Only customers [...]
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bus-lane,
cheltenham-road,
parking
Technically, Stokes Croft is not Bohemian
Posted by Kimberly on Sunday, May 8, 2011
As we get lots of new visitors asking about Stokes Croft, we have to provide some more details about Stokes Croft than locals need. Stokes Croft is not Bohemian. Bohemia is a part of the Czech Republic. While there may [...]
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stokes-croft