Category Archives: Environment

A bad week for …

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Editing a provincial newspaper has never been the most intellectually rigorous of tasks. Traditionally the ability to create an aggressively macho management culture by bullying the work experience girl; grooming a couple of contacts in the local Rotary Club; having … Continue reading →

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Rapid Transit: An Open letter to Sustrans from Mark Bradshaw

Posted on February 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

First Out! Sustrans in! “To help explain the impact on the cycle path in much greater detail.” Climb down or buying out the opposition? You decide … Release Date: 05-Feb-2008 Below is the text of an open letter sent by … Continue reading →

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That "disused" railway track in full …

Posted on February 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader has sent in a series of photos to BBC Bristol of the Bristol and Bath Cycle path that show just how popular it is. This is the path described by local politicians, the West of England Strategic Partnership … Continue reading →

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Cyclepath: here come the sketches!

Posted on February 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

How wide do they think the cycle path is? A quick roundup of cycle path related shenanigans … The meeting arranged for Tuesday 5 February 2008 at 7.30pm is at Easton Community Centre, not Easton Leisure Centre or The Cornubia. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Conservatives, Developments, Environment, Green Party, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Transport, WESP | Tagged , , | There are 36 comments

The strange case of the disappearing press release

Posted on January 31, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

First thing this morning the city council published a press release – “Parks to get even better deal from revised investment plans” – with yet another new set of figures regarding how much of our park land the Labour Party … Continue reading →

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Our cycle path's being Savaged!

Posted on January 29, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Now this is getting fucking ridiculous. It’s like Bristol’s got its very own multi-millionaire Merchant Venturer Forrest Gump character popping up every time something totally crap is announced in the city. To be honest, the way things are run around … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Congestion charge, Developments, Environment, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Transport, WESP | Tagged , | There are 4 comments

EXCLUSIVE: £200m of Bristol park land is officially under threat

Posted on January 29, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

That attractive new look for our parks being proposed by Bristol City Council. After a couple of weeks of pooh-poohing claims from the Bristol Parks Forum that the Labour administration tried to sneak through a hastily assembled report at their … Continue reading →

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First in line

Posted on January 27, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Mark Bradshaw, Labour’s architect of the plans to convert the Bristol and Bath Cycle Path into a rapid transit route, is very keen to play down any role First Bus – Bristol’s most hated firm – might have in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol West, Environment, FOI, Labour Party, Local government, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 8 comments

The path of most resistance?

Posted on January 25, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Months after it was trailed on Bristol Indymedia; a full week after it was plastered EXCLUSIVELY all over the front page of The Evening Cancer; ten days after Helen Holland and her transport boss Mark Bradshaw invited us to their … Continue reading →

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Wot a load of rubbish

Posted on January 17, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

First they came for the bulky waste collections and slapped a £25 charge on them because it was being “abused by small businesses”. Then they came for any of our extra waste and slyly introduced “waste chargeable” sacks under the … Continue reading →

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