Category Archives: Transport

Parking news

Posted on December 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Within just days of the Labour-run administration raising parking charges to ten pounds a day and threatening inner-city residents with a costly Controlled Parking Zone we are given a nice little insight into a Labour councillor’s personal ‘Christian’ approach to … Continue reading →

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Questions, questions 2: Residents' Parking Zones

Posted on November 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Lib Dem Mark Wright has picked up on some points raised by The Blogger over on Charlie Bolton’s blog regarding the finances of the proposed Residents’ Parking Zones for wealthier inner city areas. Council officers have been selling the scheme … Continue reading →

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The Blogger get's it wrong, wrong, wrong

Posted on November 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not an admission we have to make around here that often you’ll agree and, yes, it’s hard to countenance but The Blogger’s got it wrong. On Friday we said: In another piece of transport news, that no doubt will be … Continue reading →

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Transport round-up

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Minister of State for being an unpalatable shade of orange, Peter Vain, was in town yesterday making one of his stupid, posh foghorn-voiced announcements. And what tremendous news he brings! Yet another Labour government subsidy, no less, for Bristol’s most … Continue reading →

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Choose the ineffective, low-cost PR option day

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Fancy that! The latest supporter of the mindless and ineffective ‘Choose Day’ Christian eco-scam is none other than Mark Bradshaw, Labour’s Transport exec. He tells The Cancer: “Choose Day will help to make Bristol a leading city in addressing th[e] … Continue reading →

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Fw: Contact Campaign for Better Transport

Posted on October 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This was posted to the Bristol Social Forum and might interest some readers: From: Sian Parry Email: sian.parry@bristol.gov.uk*<http://sian.parry@bristol.gov.uk> Phone number: 0117 922 2074 Type of enquiry: i_want_to_find_a_local_group_in_my_area I support a Physical Environment Scrutiny Commission at Bristol City Council. Councillors on … Continue reading →

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CONgestion charge latest

Posted on October 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Isn’t it about time we made more room for people who can afford these? By Bluebaldee Bristol City Council in conjunction with the other three local authorities have produced yet another glossy document about how terrible congestion is in the … Continue reading →

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A lovely, social time for all?

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

You’ve gotta love the local anarcho-cyclist Critical Mass contingent. They’re now optimistically describing their last effort in Bristol back in May as “a lovely, social ride around Bristol”. Although they do go on to say: “There was a near police … Continue reading →

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On the buses

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A letter in Saturday’s Evening Cancer from this new UNITE super-union has a crack at Bristol North West’s Tory candidate Charlotte Leslie. They accuse her of “breathtaking cant and hypocrisy” over her campaign for a better Bristol bus service because … Continue reading →

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Climate Camp: ha, ha, Hari

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

So who’s the one reporter invited by the organisers to Heathrow’s increasingly farcical Camp for Climate Change and given free rein to wander around and do what he likes while other journalists must have a “media savvy” climate camper escort … Continue reading →

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