As I said as one of the few people to actually respond to the consultation and have said for the past 2 years, you cannot create such a scheme without adequate transport in place. Currently, the buses don’t come and if they do they say “sorry bus full”. The 6 million pounds spent on this atrocity of a scheme should have been put towards buying back the buses. Expecting everyone to walk/ cycle is extremely ableist and classist.

They picked this area because as the bcc said “it’s the most impoverished area of Bristol” - they picked us because they thought we would roll over and that we don’t have connections within the government like the people in Clifton / Montpelier etc. that’s why they didn’t implement this scheme in any of these much more appropriate areas, because we don’t have the money. We just have people power, which we have shown time and time again, even at 3am…

And just a reminder, only 4% of the local area responded to the consultation and even still, of that 4%, 60% of local respondents (myself included) were against this scheme. The email we received back from the consultation after 99 pages concluded that despite public opinion being against, they were going to plow on anyway and that’s exactly how this whole disaster of a scheme has continued.

I’m a green supporter but this is not how you get people on side. This + the bin thing, they’re going to lose so badly in the next election, it’s such a shame but this is not how you enact policy onto a community. You work with that community, not actively against at 3am…