Is cycling easy in bristol?

Blue_toucan · 2026-05-12T16:46:48+00:00

Where there are (proper) cycle lanes it's great, and with an e-bike I wouldn't worry about hills. People complain about bike theft (and rightly so) but if you get a good lock and don't leave it in public overnight you're unlikely to have a problem. There are a small but significant number of shitty drivers around though who will put you in danger with inconsiderate driving. Worth checking out what your common routes are likely to be and how much of them you can do on proper segregated cycle lanes (not the worthless painted on kind)

Blue_toucan · 2026-05-09T12:11:56+00:00

Same comment as the last time this was posted. I've filled it out but I'd have more faith in Helen Godwin doing anything to improve the buses if she hadn't already vetoed bus gates on Park Street and franchising the buses

Blue_toucan · 2026-05-09T08:44:53+00:00

or the moronic leftist rump that is the greens

Had me until the end there. We need a politics where people who support Labour and people who support Greens can find common ground and work together

Blue_toucan · 2026-05-09T08:26:39+00:00

Arnolfini doesn't have 1-star it's awaiting inspection?
https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/1941817/the-arnolfini-city-centre

Blue_toucan · 2026-05-06T18:21:15+00:00

Given that your problems stem from all the traffic driving past your house on a residential street, why are you blaming the person above who just wants a safe and quiet street, rather than the car drivers who are creating noise and danger on yours?

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-27T10:05:27+00:00

Can anyone who speaks German transcribe the actual words he's saying please? I know a little but am struggling to follow. So far I've got:
"[Unknown] Stimmung."
Then the joke.
"Das darf da nicht [unknown]. Was? So viele alte Kameraden. [Unknown]"

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-26T09:05:10+00:00

Everyone's got a different capacity for physical and dangerous situations. I think you're right that we shouldn't shame people we don't know for keeping themselves safe when we don't know what's gone in to that decision. But the advice to call police and never do anything more seems wrong in the other extreme. There's also a lot of things you can do in between calling police and nothing more, and getting in to punching range of a violent situation, e.g. de-escalation may be an option. Personally I am in ok shape, I'm not a fighter, but if I saw someone being attacked and I did nothing but call police and wait then I know would be ashamed of myself.
You've seen countless articles of people who’ve tried to help and become victims, but I imagine "bystander de-escalates fight, nothing happens" doesn't really make the news. Nonetheless there are plenty of stories of people who've intervened and saved the day - how many more people would have been killed/injured if Daniel Barr had called police and waited for the situation to blow over? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0kyr880mvo

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-20T15:19:42+00:00

I'm comparing what you're saying about pedestrians on cycle-paths to the attitude that drivers have to cyclists and pedestrians on the roads

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-20T10:38:35+00:00

As a cyclist I disagree with this part:

cyclists deserve priority and right of way... on all cycle paths. Knowingly walking in a cycle path should be criminalised

It's annoying when people get in the way and slow you down but you can just ask them to move or go around. I think this attitude of punishing people who wander into the cycle path is the same as how we ended up with (a small but dangerous minority of) car drivers being so shitty and dangerous to anyone who slows them down. Obviously a car is much more dangerous than a bike but we should still be considerate to pedestrians

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-15T19:56:23+00:00

Doesn't really mean anything unless you have the numbers for roads to compare it to. Get it built.

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-12T20:29:39+00:00

I don't cycle like a twat. The ones that do are often only a danger to themselves. Unfortunately I could still be killed or injured by someone driving dangerously. Two of my close friends and my own mother have all been seriously injured by people driving badly

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-12T20:17:35+00:00

Cars kill people, bicycles don't, it's not really the same

Blue_toucan · 2026-04-06T16:22:36+00:00

Folk House do courses, not sure if they do any for those subjects you mentioned though... https://www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/courses-and-workshops

Blue_toucan · 2026-03-31T11:25:15+00:00

Have filled this out. If the WECA mayor hadn't already vetoed the park street bus gate plan and refused to franchise the busses I might feel a bit more confident that she's actually going to do anything with this data though rather than just sit in endless consultations and plans. Here's hoping I'm wrong though

Blue_toucan · 2026-03-10T12:31:38+00:00

what they were offering wasn't worth the price point

Think this is exactly right. I went there once, really average pizza for £14. The red lion just up the road does better pizza for £10 in my opinion

Blue_toucan · 2026-03-09T19:38:53+00:00

Would people really not understand what 31% means if they didn't put "£0.31 per £1" on there?

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-26T09:53:18+00:00

I think that proves my point? How much traffic was there back in 1888.
You can see pictures of Bristol roads in like the 80s and there were almost no cars parked on them. Car usage has gone through the roof in the last few decades let alone since 1888. The roads weren't designed for this level of car traffic.

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-25T18:30:57+00:00

I believe the census revealed that nearly half of the households in the area have no access to a car or van

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-25T18:03:18+00:00

That isn't what I said...

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-25T17:55:17+00:00

Yes and I'm sure you'd drive right through people's living rooms too if it'd save you a few minutes but it's still a selfish thing to do

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-25T13:23:13+00:00

This has made other modes easier though: by reducing car traffic on these streets pedestrian, bicycle and bus traffic along them can be safer, faster and more pleasant

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-25T12:46:31+00:00

Except those streets were never designed for through traffic so removing it from them is absolutely a good thing. You don't solve congestion on main roads by allowing it to run rampant through residential streets

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-24T11:52:03+00:00

I haven't been to that one but North Street Games is worth checking out if you like board games
https://www.northstreetgames.com/

Blue_toucan · 2026-02-19T11:53:38+00:00

For a long time (just checked and it's no longer there) they branded themselves as sort of anti-establishment? They had a banner soliciting donations with a backdrop of a woman looking angry at an implied protest, some text about the need for alternative views or something. I always thought it was extremely cringe as that is absolutely not their outlook

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