Bristol City Council needs your help to define the strategic cycle network and help to identify the priorities for investment over the next twenty years. All of our existing road network (with the exception of the M32) is important for cycling but we need define what roads and paths are more important to you for [...]

Bristol’s rail network is currently underused. A relatively small investment in increasing train frequencies and improving the facilities, including reopening a few stations, could make rail a far more attractive choice for significantly more people. Better services on the Severn Beach Line have lead to an 80% increase in its use over the last four [...]

The RAC has made a press release saying that four in five households is in “transport poverty”. This has been duly copied and pasted by the media without much thought. The invented term “transport poverty” has been coined to parallel “fuel poverty” which relates to households spending over 10% of their income on fuel mainly [...]

I came across these (one above and two at the end of this post) animated ads for a Belgian bus company De Lijn. They are great cartoons and obviously take their inspiration from Pixar’s “Bugs Life” and “Finding Nemo” as well as Warner Brothers “Happy Feet” movies. The basic story in each is that a [...]

Today BristolStreets.co.uk has been upgraded to a whole new version. But this is only a beginning. The new look provides a core of functions that are faster and easier than in previous versions. This version is, in many ways, what I originally wanted to do with the site, but could not due to various technical [...]