Bristolians

[sickpup]

You can't filter. That is all.

[Sam_Y_93]

I'm in Bristol now (down here for college) and it seems that no one can drive in the whole city!
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[Fisty]

Yes I Can.

It's those 7 webbed toe'd Londoners that seem to have problems with filtering.
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[Marmalade]

[Jim Mc]

[andym]

Having moved to Bristol from Glasgow it was a bit of a shock how bad the driving was there.... indicators are just pretty orange decorations on the car (either that or the stalk is broken off so they can't use them), there's no such things as speed limits, the only way to get out at a junction is to floor it and close your eyes, red lights are only advisory etc etc

Most of the things that get done on the roads in Bristol would get you stabbed in Glasgow, my way round it was to become a bus driver

[Recluso]

So what happened to inspire that epiphany?

Most drivers, whether 2 wheeled or 4 are crap in Bristol I watched some idiot kid on scooter try to filter in between two buses the other week.

Made for great entertainment! I think everyone on the bus was collectively thinking 'DIE.'



P.S. I totally can't filter either xD But then I'm too wussy to try half the time.
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[Noxious89123]

Drove through Bristol at the weekend, one question; What the heck were they thinking designing the roads like THAT?! Pretty much every roundabout / junction I crossed was so poorly designed as to be downright dangerous.

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[Paulington]

Living in Bristol the roads here are designed dreadfully, that's for sure. At heavy traffic times there are several 'hotspots' that lead to half an hour to hour delays for people in cars and the council basically refuse to acknowledge that these exist, instead deciding to work on other stuff that doesn't need changing. .
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[bencav]

[bazza]

[Jim Mc]

You must have been heading into Glasgow at the time. The roads heading out are chokka block.

[Frost]

Visiting Brizzle tomorrow, I'll keep an eye out.

To be fair i've seen some bloody aggressive filtering in Bristol many times. Though it's always been cyclists

[Marmalade]

[andym]

The thing I don't understand with Bristol (it may be in other cities too), but they have started putting pedestrian crossings on the exit to roundabouts the lights seem to have a mind of their own changing to red when there isn't anyone in sight.

[sickpup]

[Marmalade]

You might remember I slowed and waved you past as I had done my job and saw you as being a courier needing to get somewhere.

You recognised my business name and stopped for a chat before getting on while i trundled off for fuel and a maccy d's breakfast.

But yes, there are many bikers who seem to just sit in the traffic faking filtering but that happens everywhere. Damn people getting in my way.
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[sickpup]

[Recluso]

[Clanger]

[ninja_butler]

[andym]

you get used to it eventually.... treat everyone like they treat you on the roads... car, bike and bus... actually when I was driving the buses I never EVER lost a game of chicken

For anyone that knows Bristol well, I managed 30mph across the downs on a Saturday afternoon..... double decker bus, traffic coming towards me and me with my eyes closed most of the way.

[Recluso]

[Cheeseybeaner]

To be fair if you live in Bristol and aren't a stressed out bike courier trying to get back to the smoke asap it probably isn't imperative to be a 'demon filterer.'
I think traffic conditions in the south west are somewhat different to the start stop shittiness of congested London roads so you'd probably be happy to stop for a second or two in my opinion rather than filter constantly which you pretty much have to in London.

[wasted_ace]

Bristol is certainly a challenging city to work your way through but ive been in towns and citys throughout the UK that are far worse..took a group of 26 bikes from Aztec West in the North all the way through the middle and on down to the A370..negotiated the city no problem and all stayed together.
Bristol is not that bad...try London,Birmingham,Leeds or Manchester