Zero Emission Shopping Deliveries

It's easy to work out from the orange and blue livery on the shopping trolley where it belongs, but is it roadworthy? Where are the lights, brakes and steering? One good point is that it's a Zero Emission way to get the shopping home. Once it's used, simply leave it out on the pavement and someone will take it away for recycling!

A4 Bath Road Changes

The Bath Road has seen some changes since the new bus route work was completed some months ago. The new cycle lane is useful, but as you will see, it gets lost once the road narrows and the bus lane takes over.

This section at Arnos Vale shows the start of the outgoing bus lane. Trouble is the businesses along this stretch of road have lost customer parking, especially the two motorcycle shops. The side roads are already clogged, so there's no chance there either!

The Sandy Park Road junction has confused a few people since it was changed... Left turn only if you are in the left-hand lane!

Pavement Parking - Got £70 spare?

One of our favourite Blogs on traffic, Bristol Traffic have an interesting article about pavement parking.

Looking round the parish, the old problem of parking on the pavement may soon be yet another source of income for the council. Looking at the article in the Sun Newspaper, people parking with two wheels on the pavement will end up with a £70 fine?

If this driver parked outside the Cafe in Wick Road thinks Sunday lunchtimes are safe, think again.
The traffic wardens are out and about in the Brislington area at all sorts of funny times nowadays!

Brislington Village 2011

 

On a cold Saturday in January the traffic is unusually light. The new road layout looks pretty good. but the same problems remain heading out towards Bath. There's a 24 hour bus lane for a bus service that does not run 24 hours!

 

The old bottleneck between the Kings Arms and the former Hollybush inn (now flats) is still there too.

Residents' Parking Zones - Could they come to Brislington?

 

Not something here in Brislington yet, but the people of Cotham & Kingsdown got one of these last week to warn them about the Residents' Parking Zone that comes into effect in January 2011. The first permit will cost £30 per annum; the second will cost £80 per annum. In exceptional cases where a third permit is issued, it will cost £200 per annum. Businesses will have to pay £100 for one vehicle only!

Kingsdown is starting - Will it come to Brislington?

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!

A4 Nightmare

 

Here's the future for Brislington in 2011

Sandy Park Road Clear - On a Saturday?

 

Yes - Unbelievably, a Saturday afternoon and these parking places empty!

Duck!

 

Whitby Road, with the low bridge has provided many locals with some entertainment, especially when a lorry gets stuck here. In the days of CB Radio, it was a common thing for people to give lorry drivers travel directions, forgetting this low bridge.

Well, you had your chance...

 

Here's the former Hollybush Inn site on the main A4 Bath Road in Brislington. As you can see from this picture, the road could have been widened. Instead, the council allowed the new block of flats to be built to the original pub building line.

Sunnydene, Brislington

 

The William Sutton estate in Brislington was re-built over the last few years and a majority of the houses and flats now have off-street parking. Many residents are elderly and don't necessarily have a car, but there are extreme cases where cars have taken over the pavements as the driveway is full. At least this road is fairly clear for the time being!

The Hollybush Inn

 

The Hollybush Inn at Brislington stood at the junction of Bristol Hill and Kenneth Road from 1905 until it was demolished in 2007. In that this was the major bottle-neck on the A4 into Bristol, why did the Council allow the flats now built on the site to be erected to the same building line?

Bloomfield Road

 

An odd shot this. Plenty of room to park and the last house in the road before the school has not yet been converted into several flats. The hairdressers beyond the school is also shown and is also now flats nowadays. In short, two properties in one picture with multi-occupancy and not a lot of on-site parking, if any!

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.

Welcome to Brislington

 

Here's the A4 Bath Road that leads to the former Somerset village of Brislington. No longer a Village in its own right, Brislington is now a part of Bristol. The road here looks fairly clear, but as we will see later, traffic in the area, and more especially parking, is a major problem.