What is happening to Bristol?

[BigAl68]

I know they could have planned it rather than wait until January and think bugger we need to spend 15 million by April.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I can reccomend the Marriott Royal in Bristol ,but I was not that impressed with Bristol if I'm honest

 

[summerdays]

A lot of road works and similar capital projects are started every March in order to use up the allocated budget before the end of the tax year so that councils spend their allocations, otherwise in the next year's budget council's are penalised for not needing as much as they claimed for so the following year's funding is cut.

I think the way that the funding has to be used in financial years is stupid, and does result in lots of stress at the end of the financial year to ensure you use it. I'm sure it results in money being wasted as it is difficult to properly co-ordinate projects to fall neatly in a financial year. Miss applying for something by a couple of days and you have lost the funding completely.

 

[Spartak]

The 'proposed' Metrobus system could pose a problem to cycle paths in the future !

The plans for the Emersons Green section seemed to go straight along the existing ring road cycle path ?

 

[summerdays]

The 'proposed' Metrobus system could pose a problem to cycle paths in the future !

The plans for the Emersons Green section seemed to go straight along the existing ring road cycle path ?

I'm assuming it will be on the road on the ring road, though they have removed the bus lane at the roundabout, it's the space for the bus stops and for pedestrians on what is a very non standard width path in the first place, let alone the disruption as they put it in.

 

[Spartak]

I'm assuming it will be on the road on the ring road, though they have removed the bus lane at the roundabout, it's the space for the bus stops and for pedestrians on what is a very non standard width path in the first place, let alone the disruption as they put it in.

..... on the road ?

Where will the cars go

 

[the_mikey]

On the A4174 Hambrook to Emersons Green section, they will be claiming the grass verge and removing (and eventually replacing) one of the foot/cycle bridges to create an extra bus lane + bus stops, along with narrowing of the existing lanes and a 50mph speed limit along all of it, the other carriageway (Emersons Green to Hambrook) will remain mostly untouched but there will be some bus stops added along the way particularly where the current police lay-by is, with the possibility of the 2+ lane having extended hours of operation.

 

[summerdays]

When you say

they will be claiming the grass verge and removing (and eventually replacing) one of the foot/cycle bridges

the only bridge I can think of ... they can't removed and then eventually replace ... Don't they need to provide the new one first? Whilst I wouldn't enjoy going on the dual carriageway at that point, the kids who cycle along there going to school aren't going to transfer to the road.

And there isn't any space to use between the Hambrook lights and the motorway junction, the narrow path is already next to the hedge that I assume is the boundary of public land.

And the 2+ lane is completely pointless I often look in cars as I pass them and they are usually occupied! the only time that lane runs ok is when those 3 guys in their hi-vis sit there counting how many rule breakers there are. Even then some still ignore the fact it's meant to be a two plus lane.

 

[the_mikey]

When you say

the only bridge I can think of ... they can't removed and then eventually replace ... Don't they need to provide the new one first? Whilst I wouldn't enjoy going on the dual carriageway at that point, the kids who cycle along there going to school aren't going to transfer to the road.

And there isn't any space to use between the Hambrook lights and the motorway junction, the narrow path is already next to the hedge that I assume is the boundary of public land.

And the 2+ lane is completely pointless I often look in cars as I pass them and they are usually occupied! the only time that lane runs ok is when those 3 guys in their hi-vis sit there counting how many rule breakers there are. Even then some still ignore the fact it's meant to be a two plus lane.

The police did a two day sting on the 2+ lane about three weeks ago, possibly based on the fact that nobody expected the police to enforce it two days in a row, the queue of cars pulled over by the police on both mornings was a glorious / disappointing sight, it really needs to be enforced more regularly.

 

[summerdays]

The police did a two day sting on the 2+ lane about three weeks ago, possibly based on the fact that nobody expected the police to enforce it two days in a row, the queue of cars pulled over by the police on both mornings was a glorious / disappointing sight, it really needs to be enforced more regularly.

How did I miss that, but hopefully they will come back again for the other people who didn't see that!

 

[Spartak]

http://road.cc/content/news/147616-...s-lifted-and-cut-half-create-smoother-surface

 

[BigAl68]

I had a lovely circuit of the cobbles yesterday. I will miss them when they get changed as they are Bristol's pave.

 

[summerdays]

http://road.cc/content/news/147616-...s-lifted-and-cut-half-create-smoother-surface

I saw that and thought I'd rather they had spent it on some thing else!

 

[Simon1234]

@User14044 the thing is Bristol was given so much money and all that have done is screw everything up. But yes the tories have been a bunch of etonian daffodils

I think that you will find that the council has a Labour majority. If you vote for muppets, you get what you asked for.
Like a park and ride built on the outskirts without a bus service (no joking, I drive past a massive empty car park every day). So money is not an issue, just how it is spent. Same old story.

 

[BigAl68]

I think that you will find that the council has a Labour majority. If you vote for muppets, you get what you asked for.
Like a park and ride built on the outskirts without a bus service (no joking, I drive past a massive empty car park every day). So money is not an issue, just how it is spent. Same old story.

I was talking about the current government not the local council. Bristol has been given tens of millions of money for cycling and seem to spend it badly and inefficiently from a cyclist who works and has lived there most of my life. George red trousers just seems to have made it even worse but the now there idea to pull up and relay the cobbles just makes me wonder if they are just all smoking too much of Bristol's favourite tipple.