Brizzle - cycling city.

gtvlusso

Anyone seen anything happen about this? I thought £25M had been given to the city to sort cycling out?! Not even seen a poster campaign!!

They managed to wreck Princes street bridge by making it one way for cars and putting a cycling/ped walkway on the otherside - does not count in my eyes!

I wrote to my local MP about it as I fear the money may be lining a few pockets....and hosting a few dinners.

salsarider79

Sleeze, in the council? Shorely Shum Mishtake??? :shock:

A few more bus/cycle lanes wouldn't go amiss

sarajoy

It's a bit of a joke, isn't it.

I see the odd useful change (like an island being removed from the centre of a section of the A38 up Filton/Horfield way and a cycle path added down the side - thank goodness, cars liked to squeeze one, there), but certainly not enough for a "Cycling City".

theblender

You can't spend £25 million quid overnight, you can't just start putting cyclelanes etc everywhere.

Things have to be planned, people who this affect have to be consulted, there is no overnight solution.

Personally, I'd rather it took 10 years and things got done properly, than a few months of bodged projects which require years of remedial work afterwords.

First thing i'd do would be to get a crack task force of undercover Police patrolling the cyclepaths, skateparks etc to wipe out the chav cnuts who make me and my son and undoubtley loads of other cyclists too scared to ride in certain areas at certain times.

...and jail all the knobs who knowingly buy stolen goods...

sarajoy

theblender - well, yee-es, all true, but it's back to GTV's point that there's been no talk of it, no posters, nothing in my line of sight, as a cyclist. It would be nice to see some hint of planning in action, if not yet action in action.

gtvlusso

theblender wrote:

You can't spend £25 million quid overnight, you can't just start putting cyclelanes etc everywhere.

Things have to be planned, people who this affect have to be consulted, there is no overnight solution.

Personally, I'd rather it took 10 years and things got done properly, than a few months of bodged projects which require years of remedial work afterwords.

First thing i'd do would be to get a crack task force of undercover Police patrolling the cyclepaths, skateparks etc to wipe out the chav cnuts who make me and my son and undoubtley loads of other cyclists too scared to ride in certain areas at certain times.

...and jail all the knobs who knowingly buy stolen goods...

Harsh!

I did see a pointless article on Pints West about putting a cover over certain sections of the Bristol/Bath cycle path......WTF! Why bother?! :shock:

So, you still get wet on the uncovered sections and at the beginning and the end of your journey and at somepoint on the cyclepath you'll get wet anyway - rain tends to run across the path anway and we get a south westerley wind - side on - so, you will get wet whether it is covered or not......The most pointless and useless idea I have ever heard of!!

It has been over a year now and I can see sweet FA for it and have seen no plans/decent ideas......or campaigns/training or encouragement for employers to provide better facilities (i.e. offering grants to small employers to encourage cycling to work!)

I am worried that this will be the same bullcrap "no money left" routine that we normally go through after years of consultation/paying for quango's and looking into stupid ideas from people that don't cycle everyday!

Cyclepaths are not aalways the answer to everything - land purchase and paying off the right people takes time. However, there is much more they could be getting on with and pushing a higher profile of ideas and consulting the Brizzle cycling public......

nation

Wasn't the covered cycle path thing an April Fool's joke?

gtvlusso

nation wrote:

Wasn't the covered cycle path thing an April Fool's joke?

I thought that, but it did seem to get coverage on the TV news.......!

FyPunK

I think we had our status the same time as you lot down there, I have spoken to papsmurf about it, here in blackpool we have had an explosion of cardboard posters cable tied to lamp posts about cycle safety, pointless as most have been either ripped down or blown down. A point made earlier is at first we had workshops/ meetings about what could be done, which was held by the council and open to the public, but not heard of anything happening since. I do know they are now holding cycle safety courses for young ones as well as adults but the adults have to pay. Time will tell what happens here.

attica

Please correct me if this is wrong but:

I understand that cycling provision in Bristol is the responsibility of Gloucester County Council in the North and North Somerset County Council in the South and that the monies have gone to Gloucester County Council and Bristol City Council.

As a North Somerset resident this might well mean that I'll only see improvements in the city centre yet the route in from the A370 (which is where most from Long Ashton, Clevedon Portishead, Nailsea and Weston will come into town) is either scary as you like or laughably circuitous depending on preference for roads or paths, I have my fingers crossed that something will get done but if my initial assertion is true then we're bu99ered.

si. d

Totally agree.
When I first heard about the initiative it sounded fantastic, but alas I haven't seen anything. Keeping people informed and up to date, while at the same time publicising cycling should be one of the biggest priorities. The last news I heard, they were appointing a project manager type role to head it up, 43k a year, have they filled this role?

edit: found a website http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/T ... alSection1