Category Archives: Labour Party

Railway path: dates for the diary

Posted on February 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

An example of the appalling consequences of direct action involving a bucket of shit and a politician. Here’s the beginning of a useful list of meetings where people against the BRT route on the railway path can get up, close … Continue reading →

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Railway path round-up

Posted on February 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s a new summary of events so far at Conserve England, featuring many of the best of people’s comments from here and the BBC among others. Yesterday’s Evening Cancer, meanwhile, might already have provided us with the quote of the … Continue reading →

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The corporate takeover of the railway path

Posted on February 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s some sterling research on the role of First Group and the BRT scheme over on Bristol Indymedia by Cyclopath. They point out the guided bus used in the sketch for the proposed BRT route on Bristol and Bath Railway … Continue reading →

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Bradshaw and the amazing imaginary quango

Posted on February 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Hands up who knows what the bloody hell the Bristol Transport Board is? Because, according to under-pressure Labour Transport boss Mark Bradshaw’s open letter published yesterday, they’re the people deciding the future of our cycle path and whether it gets … 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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Fancy that!

Posted on February 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

I recently received my copy of ‘Our City’, which replaces the former Bristol News. I would like to compliment the officers who worked on the publication for a job well done. Explaining the City Council’s Draft Budget is not an … Continue reading →

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Well informed councillor of the week

Posted on February 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Step forward Labour’s Noreen Daniels, councillor for the Hillfields Ward of the city. In her favour, Noreen’s the only councillor so far known to have responded to any correspondence from the public regarding her party’s plan to turn the Bristol … 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 →

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Eurotrash

Posted on January 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The appalling Esther Pickup-Keller – wife of the equally appalling Derek Pickup, the city’s education boss with the shady past in the council’s community grants department – has discovered a new gravy train to her liking. Pickup-Keller currently picks up … Continue reading →

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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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