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South Gloucestershire want you to believe that building roads is the solution...
So South Gloucestershire Council are consulting on another big expansion of the A4174 — the “Avon Ring Road” as it was known when first conceived in the 1980s. It’s an instructive study in how...
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Scenes from the Cumberland Basin Road system
Why is there an advertising van, promoting patios and driveways, abandoned on the Cumberland Basin road system? How long has it been there? It has the look of something that has been abandoned there...
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Get a grip on roadworks accessibility, Bristol
The Frome Greenway has been closed for more than half a year, and nobody seems to care. I chatted about it in this video I made about Bristol’s camouflaged cycleways. The Frome Greenway starts/ends on...
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Bristol should copy Paris? They’re copying us.
As active travel and liveable city campaigners, it’s tempting to portray our own city as falling behind while others forge ahead with brave and progressive plans, as a tactic to nudge our own leaders...
View ArticleWe must all shield vulnerable older people from this novel threat: delete...
Before SARS-CoV-2, there were already several coronaviruses that infected humans. They circulated in the population giving us colds. What’s so different about the novel coronavirus that makes it cause...
View ArticleElvis has left the collective consciousness
Of all the depressing, startling, and often eccentric soundbites that scrolled past during budget day afternoon, the one that really stood out for me was the chancellor boasting that he is spending £2...
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Think global, act regional
While urban campaigners cry “save the trees” to halt re-development of city centre car parks, volume housebuilders are covering fields and woods on the far side of the greenbelt with little boxes for...
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Politicians need to own their choices for our street space
The transport and streetscape proposals coming from Bristol’s councils and councillors reveal their priorities and choices. So why are they so reluctant to take ownership of them? Bristol is once...
View ArticleWhen September ends
The death of twitter and the migration to Mastodon is a good thing — as long as we don’t make it Mastodon’s Eternal September. There was a time in the early internet when it was available only inside...
View ArticleLight colour theme for Sengi (Mastodon desktop app)
I’ve been trying out Sengi — perhaps the closest a Mastodon interface gets to what I’ve been looking for. I didn’t want to say that it’s the closest I’ve found to a Tweetdeck mimic — because I’m...
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