and fully electrified ones at that!

Trams get drivers out of their cars. Fewer cars on the road = good for cycling. Public transport and active mobility are complementary, symbiotic even. Don’t fall for the auto-industry led conspiracy against trams. It’s the same one that demonizes cyclists.

Imagine this level of expenditure on public transport and active mobility. We’d have trains, subways, buses, trams and cycleways covering every city, town and village. Instead we have gridlock, pollution, environmental disaster, disease and traffic violence. Oh what a wonderful world.

If only we could have some of this type of thinking in the UK. I am 42 and I wonder whether I will live to see the day this country takes a civilised approach to urban design and mobility. Meanwhile, just across the water, the Dutch are apparently the only people actually living in the 21st century.

Absolutely god damn right. I must have missed the meeting where they decided cars were more important than people and children.

Note to self : Remember never to read below the line in the Bristol Post.

Seeing more of this all around the country - the infantilisation of Britain. Our litigiousness and culture of ambulance chasing no doubt to blame.

Proud to live in this vibrant, outward-looking and tolerant place. Long may it continue to thrive.

Bit of bedtime reading for you

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I hope the wall wasn’t damaged

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And another …

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Here’s a great example of what can be achieved through pedestrianisation and low-car policies.

Agreed. One further comment on this scheme : there should be provision made to enable the installation of a tramway in future. I don’t think they included this in the proposal, but segregated bus lanes are a start I guess.

Not sure how useful it is spending my time replying to this drivel. Have fun lobbying for the interests of the automative and fossil fuel industries. 👍

Removing cars will make Park Street more accessible to more people. There are examples of this from all over the world but the gold standard is the Netherlands where you frequently see disabled people using bicycle lanes and able to move around cities and neighbourhoods unimpeded by cars.

There is a vocal minority of car-brained pensioners who think they own the city and have a right to drive and park everywhere. Most people probably don’t care all that much. However, I confidently predict that, once the scheme is implemented, few people will want things to go back the way they were.

It’s because cars ruin Park Street, just like they ruin the rest of the city. Is there any place on Earth that hasn’t been improved by removing cars?

OK I think I want to move to Holland. Only downside I can see would be lack of cask ale, but I could probably get used to the fizzy stuff given the world class urbanism on offer.