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What can the new Green administration do to improve cycling in Bristol?
(Work by Lonac at the Old Book Shop in North Street, Bedminster, Bristol)
For cycling expert Laura Laker, the author of new book Potholes and Pavements, “people need to be given options in terms of how they travel”.
Some oft-quoted facts are that Bristol is the second most congested city in the UK after London, that most car journeys are under five miles and that most of those cars only have one person in them.
“That’s no good,” Laker told Bristol24/7. “It’s just going to result in congestion, which is what’s happening in Bristol and cities around the UK. So it’s a case of prioritising the alternatives.”
This could involve giving buses more priority across the city, with Laker stressing that bus travel is “really important for people on low incomes, who often can’t afford to own a car and run a car”.
Most journeys we make are less than five miles, but in England we currently use cars for 67% of those short trips. What if we could choose to cycle sometimes, instead?
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- festina 4 min 41 sec ago
If people can't walk of cycle then give them a mobility scooter.
- mdavidford 57 min 40 sec ago
Could've been worse - they could've turned up to find this.
- Paul J 1 hour 57 min ago
I've had a couple of biggish crashes, with head going through windows. It was always the /other/ injuries, to limbs and body, that were the worst.
- Steve K 2 hours 35 min ago
There's plenty to criticise Labour about without spreading proven lies.
- S.E. 2 hours 37 min ago
Obviously a mix of group think/feel, carelessness, inattention, and risks of the traffic... on both sides, drivers and bikers!...
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"How cabbies manage to get away with pretending they're a public service deserving of special treatment is beyond me"....
- ritxis 4 hours 25 min ago
Shimano has had a patent for years with a dynamo in the derailleur cage... and the same thing you say about charging Sram batteries could be done...
- chrisonabike 4 hours 42 min ago
Simples then! If it's just social changes over here we just need to make people in the UK a bit more like the Dutch (relatively simple - language...
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Many good points,but commuting in London and surrounding areas I see lots of terrible behaviour by cyclists as well....
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Laura Laker is in Bristol today - she's doing a meet'n'greet/talk about her book at Stanfords (the travel bookshop in the Old City) tonight.
Some decent quality, joined-up, segregated routes around and to/from the centre and Temple Meads. The Bristol-Bath route is good until it gets close to the city centre but then it sort of dissolves. There are bits here and there but they don't obviously form much of a network and often seem to be blocked by stalled construction or demolition. They also switch from shared use to segregated to on-road quite a lot, which doesn't inspire confidence or clarity.
I'm fairly often cycling around the Temple Meads area and the infrastructure is bad enough that I prefer using the roads as it's so much quicker and more convenient.
As an example, there's the separated infrastructure along Clarence Rd (A370): https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8FYV6nXbRGBVmXD7
It's only on one side of the road (the wrong side for most of my journeys) and it stops before reaching the Temple Meads roundabout - just presumably dumping people out into the busy traffic along there. Of course, people will just ignore that the infrastructure is insufficient and then cycle/scoot along the pavement to reach the roundabout. It's so not joined up that it's a joke.