Newbridge Road Ice

 

Saturday Night at the Movies is wasn't here, just another Bristol road that needed closing due to the icy conditions. Arlington Road, notorious to locals, is the place to steer clear of. In this case, someone could not and managed to hit the wall of this house in Newbridge Road. It was not until after Midnight that the Council put a sign at the top of the road warning about the ice!

 

Not a result of the ice in this road, but the owner could have done a lot better for a Christmas present than all this damage! Further up the road, before the ice was eventually cleared, one owner of a brand new Astra had to face the prospect of multiple collisions with their parked car.

Icy roads in St. Anne's

 

Icy roads, especially after snow and freezing temperatures to follow, mean some people leave sense at home and drive the car down a steep hill. Here's the usual result at the bottom end of Newbridge Road!

St. Anne's - Arlington Road

 

Not the film, just another nightmare of a road for parking your car. To add to the misery, several house owners have given up their front gardens for a parking space. In reality, the parking spaces don't get used all the time.

Here's where the future could catch up with the people with front garden driveways; in Kingsdown, the new Residents' Parking Zone is being finalised and the driveway owners there have ended up with double yellow lines across their driveway & dropped kerb. If a RPZ were implemented here - Nightmare!

The rules in Kingsdown are basically as follows: 

The first permit costs £30 per annum; the second costs £80 per annum. In exceptional cases where a third permit is issued, it will cost £200 per annum. Each household is eligible for 50 free visitors’ permits and can purchase up to 50 additional permits per annum at a cost of £1 per permit.