That is not state meaning anything nice on the contrary meaning mess SUPPOSED TO BE A GREEN CITY but we encourage pollution by slowing down all the traffic poo poo any or all developments likely to add to the city's well being waste money, £millions, on getting a few hundred people to and from work from just 1 area in the process of above take away / destroy natural space for nature a football team that should be the flagship of the west country floundering in the depth's. a council that wastes tax payers money by inefficientcy, try using their multi functional press button phone system seems like 50 departments and 20 people manning them ( was advised by one operative to press any department button as all the calls go to a few people who cover all aspects) old lady fall's over in dark 2 street lights out, posts stick out onto path, BUSY ROUTE FOR OAP'S between resident homes doctors/shops etc, after an hour of trying pressed random buttons, as advised, went through sewage and pest control and discarded sex items, was told "we will try and see if we can get it done in a week" I really hope they do record the calls as if there is another accident, then I will phone 999 and have the old dear taken to hospital to make sure she is OK..
And a Mayor who is a hypocrite and a liar and so far removed from reality it's not true. He'd better not be re-elected.....surely he's pissed enough people off in the last couple of years not to be ?
Can't disagree with that, but it has to be tempered with.... Public transport that is expensive and unreliable. Cycle lanes that take up valuable road space, and which are used by a tiny minority. The worst traffic in the UK of any major city - see above whilst Traffic managements answer is to add yet another pointless set of traffic lights or a roundabout and sometimes staggeringly both, in the middle of nowhere for no reason. Great example is the temporary flyover at Temple Meads that stood for 20 years. It wasn't pretty but there were no queues on Temple Way. Why does it take me up to 2 hours to get from South Bristol to Almondsbury ? No truly international airport serving North America or further afield, and the one we have is awkward to get to and from for a lot of people and is miles from the centre of town. The one we had, close to a major rail hub and to the South Wests two Motorways was scuppered for proper development by NIMBY's.
*** I must wholeheartedly disagree with this comment Angelic ... sorry ... since 1990 I have travelled extensively, daily ALMOST, to every major city in the UK Birmingham, London even with the zone, Manchester, Leicester, are far worse ... Liverpool, Newcastle, Southampton/Portsmouth are better than , whilst a whole host including Nottingham, Derby Stoke Leeds are on a par or worse *** *** you need tgo walk faster ...lol
JGF2 - I came back from working in London for 15 months last March. My daily commute from Watford to Barnet was around 12-14 miles each way every day via Totterige Common, and on average took me around 25-30 minutes. Compare that to a trek from Whitchurch to Aztec West for a 09.00 start every third week in my current job, and I am having to leave home at around 07.35 to avoid being late. That journey, using the A37/A4/M32/M4 is 13.7 miles, 9 or so of which are Motorway. I have also worked in Sheffield/Rotherham, Birmingham/West Midlands, Burton/East Midlands, and I spent many months commuting to and from Liverpool and Bristol in 2012. From my own experiences, nothing is a bad, or comes close to being as bad as Bristol for traffic, to the degree that I tend not to go out driving at weekends wherever possible.
AZTEC WEST FROM STOCKWOOD TIME TO BE IN Aztec 0900 time leaving Stockwood 0810/15 arrival time via Arnos court (2 ROUTES ) via A37/A4 causeway m32 m4 m5 or A4 causeway etc time enough to get a cup of tea BCH again from Stockwood ARRIVAL TIME 0930 LEAVE STOCKWOOD 0905 London NOT TALKING ONE ROUTE, talking N, E, S and WEST, NOT TALKING PRE 9 WHEN TRAFFIC IS EASY OR AFTER 6PM EASY ISH I am talking 9 - 4PM when Marleybone to south of river/ELEPHANT & C takes over an hour or Chiswick to Canary wharf takes similar, or A40 via Regent st, piccadily Trafalgar to RIVER /SOUTWICK / Canary wharf takes anything from AN HOUR.... Capitals not intentional just lazy... oops just noticed you didn't work in London, big difference, but quite a way outside, think both are very close to M25 /m1 / a1m or a1 used to go to HEMEL 8.30 ish then Radlett 09ish 30 -40 mins then into Bouvrie street to north circular took about an hour then 30 mins more to bouvrie st once out to CHISWICK M4 USUALLY 30 -40 MINS AT 11AM ISH 90 MINS TO J19 Liverpool WAS ABOUT 3H30 TO LIVERBIRD FROM temp meads mid morning arrival 10am m6 being good that was
From home to Priory Road at Broadwalk this week to turn right down on to the Bath Road has taken me up to 35 minutes using the A37 and the back roads via Hengrove Shops and Knowle West. It's pre School run time, and is down to just sheer volume of commuter traffic.
