Kidical Mass: a few photos

 

 

What is the use of bike routes if they are blocked?

Today was the first day in around 25 years since I last cycled around Bristol and despite all the new cycle facilities, there is little respect from motorists and film crews.

My first ride was up to Clifton Down Shopping Centre and it wasn't long before I hit trouble, just before the centre, in the form of a truck and scaffolding obstructing the pavement and cycle track.

Then on Whiteladies Road, two vehicles parked on double yellow lines, partially on the pavement and the rest blocking the cycle lane.

Finally on the return journey it was a film crew completely blocking the pavement and cycle track in Queens Square.

What is the use of bike routes if they are blocked by motor vehicles?

Coronation Road Tree Lane

I have no idea when this pavement was legally designated as a segregated, shared use pavement cycle track, but it is probably over 30 years old, dating back to the old Avon Cycle Project Team.

This image from 2001 demonstrates the problem.

While this one from 2021 shows that nothing much has changed, apart from the (very) odd parked car.

Photo from BristolLive

So, unless there is are radical changes at Bristol City Council like nuclear fusion and flying cars, improvements to the cycle lane on Coronation Road will always be 30 years in the future...