Category Archives: Environment

CONsultation: the latest farce

In case you missed it – which is highly likely as the only place it’s advertised is buried in a PDF document in an obscure corner of the city council’s website – there’s currently an “ongoing” public consultation for the … Continue reading

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Plug: Recycle Your Unwanted Stuff!

Bristol Indymedia is pleased to announce the launch of our Indycycle service. Indycycle is a way of people re-cycling things they no longer need to people who may have a use for it. It is similar to the ideas of … Continue reading

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A trust for the Railway Path?

Charlie Bolton writes in the comments: Hi everyone I have seen Paul Smith suggest in a couple of places that we pursue the idea of setting up a trust to take ownership/control of the path. (I believe this was the … Continue reading

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Report from last night’s Council Meeting

By Chris Hutt from the Comments It all started so well, with Charlie Bolton’s original motion getting beefed up by a Lib-Dem amendment which he accepted. Railway Path supporters cheered and clapped. It looked for a few moments like we … Continue reading

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Plug.

Oh. And our man wandering around the Council House not doing very much passed the press office earlier and says Bristol City Council are preparing a press release about the path this very day … Ho! Ho! Ho!

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Party gossip holiday special II

Our man out on the town (again) reports … “I was at a party talking to a woman whose best friend’s flat mate’s sister knows someone who works somewhere not unadjacent to chief Bristol City Council transport officer, Colin Knight. … Continue reading

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Now we are seven

And another Labour councillor jumps ship and rejects their own transport boss’s BRT plan for the Railway path … This time, after only 40-odd years in the Labour Party, Labour’s Lawrence Hill councillor, Brenda Hugill finally manages an entirely sane, … Continue reading

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Bradshaw lies bleeding …

St George West councilor, Ron Stone has now put his opposition to the Railway Path in writing: My feelings on the issue tend to remain one of severe concern, and at present if asked to support this suggestion I would … Continue reading

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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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