Through traffic to be banned in parts of Bristol for ‘liveable neighbourhood’ scheme

slc wrote:

I live here too. The consultations in lockdown were indeed about the whole scheme - the Beaufort Road one way was part of an earlier proposal that was shelved following opposition from motorists arguing for their right to ratrun. I think the part to watch will be Avonvale road (western half of the scheme). The scope of the change here is much larger than around Beaufort Rf, and will depend largely on bus gates rather than modal filters. We have seen in Exeter that motorists will ignore these without enforcement.

Avonvale Road is on my route to the station and it's certainly problematic with traffic. The number of times I see a bus being blocked in by queued traffic the other side of the traffic calming measures.

slc wrote:

I use the same road every day. My usual experience is drivers failing to give way through the chicanes (I guess you have to pay road tax for priority to apply), but that route to the station also demonstrates the effectiveness of modal filters - imagine the ratrunning  if drivers could make it through Queen Ann road to the station.  

I got a taxi driver into trouble once with A&S police by submitting a video of them racing through the traffic calming.

Queen Ann Road is a bit of a mess at the moment what with the building work going on. I used to go fairly fast through the tunnel, but now you can't tell if you're going to be running into the back of a lorry.

slc wrote:

I'm not brave enough to go through at more than jogging pace... A couple of weeks ago someone added signs saying 'cyclists be aware high speed traffic ahead slow down', with a 'no cycling' graphic (not the correct graphic, something like a 'no smoking sign, red slash through a bicycle). I was annoyed enough to photograph it for fixmystreet, and had a result. Exciting, huh? https://www.fixmystreet.com/report/6577120

I saw those signs and briefly wondered whether they should be vandalised. Good luck getting high speed traffic along there that's not a bike.

Incidentally, I got a letter through my door today about the scheme starting up (from BCC).

slc wrote:

I am just waiting for my LTN bingo card. Bristol Post seem to be road.cc readers too and have adopted the 'summarize comments on an earlier article' article. 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/readers-react-bristol-lo...

I had a look at that earlier and thought they were showing a reasonable balance of comments. I don't get the one about it being in breach of the Disabilities Act.

Bmblbzzz wrote:

I was quite surprised to see this. What next, RPZs and 20mph limits? But in a way it makes sense that it's in this bit of St George, given that it's a district with lots of through traffic, a fairly easily drawable boundary, and that Rees probably sees it as a way to stave off the eastward march of the Greens.

We've already got the 20mph limits

There's enough complaints about Bristol traffic anyway, so a few more complaints won't matter.

I think they're trying to prevent the traffic trying to by-pass Church Rd (A420) which runs on the very top edge of the area, but isn't included. Would be fun if it was as it's the main route from East Bristol to the centre.