Category Archives: Developments

STOP PRESS: It's game over for Bradshaw as Lib Dems come off the fence

Stabbed in the back by his own party, now Bristol’s Lib Dems have kicked Bradshaw right in the bollocks! The Lib Dems have tonight announced their opposition to a BRT route on the cyclepath. Eastville Lib Dem councillor Muriel writes: … Continue reading

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More Labour councillors give their own policy the finger

BRISTOL LABOUR PARTY ARE REVOLTING!!! BRADSHAW ON THE PRECIPICE!!! IT’S A BIG LABOUR NO TO BRT!!! Dear oh dear. Another week begins with another THREE Labour councillors publicly rejecting their own transport boss, Mark Bradshaw’s BRT plan for the Bristol … Continue reading

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Saturday night at the movies

Two new films about the Railway Path here. Both, in their own way, are far more representative of the traditional left than unwashed hippy “Green Protestors” the Cancer would have you believe. One features Labour’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol … Continue reading

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CONsultants latest

The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … Continue reading

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Fwd: what does our city look like?

From BBC Bristol … The BBC is collecting pictures of Bristol that capture the soul of the city. Why? Because Bristol is getting a new Chief Executive, and she’s new to the city. Jan Ormondroyd will be given the “official … Continue reading

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Contact-a-CONsultant

We now have the full address and contacts for Sharon Daly, the CONsultant from Steer Davies Gleave who may – or may not – be responsible for trying to put a BRT route on the Railway Path … Sharon will … Continue reading

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They shoot horses don't they?

More bad news for Mark Bradshaw and Bristol’s beleaguered Labour Party administration as another one of their councillors publicly speaks out against the BRT scheme. This time it’s St George East councillor Fabian Breckels who’s not only spoken out against … Continue reading

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BRT: It's turning into rout! Labour Party in meltdown! Cabinet in tailspin! Bradshaw about to nosedive!

It looks like it’s game over tonight for Labour Transport boss, Mark Bradshaw’s plan to build a rapid bus route on the much-loved Bristol and Bath Railway Path. Earlier today Bradshaw’s cabinet colleague and fellow Labour Party member, Rosalie Walker … Continue reading

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BRT u-turn

It looks like Mark Bradshaw’s Bus Rapid Transit policy for the city is in meltdown. For starters it’s now been announced that the public CONsultation promised for this spring has been very abruptly “delayed”. Why we’re not being told. But … Continue reading

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Oh what a circus

Cancer editor and corporate lackey Mike “News Bunny” Norton was positively wetting his pants with joy yesterday. News that 4,000 low paid, low-status jobs are about to come online at the cheap and nasty new Broadmead development – that we … Continue reading

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