A Green-led council has been branded “absolutely insane” after it painted big green spots on a road to “calm the traffic”. The Telegraph has the story.
Residents in Bedminster, Bristol, were left confused after a series of green dots were painted on Greville Road.
Various theories circled the street while Bristol city council initially said it was “investigating”.
However, it has now been confirmed they were painted as part of a traffic-calming scheme.
Ed Plowden, a councillor and chairman of the transport and connectivity committee, said the markings had been placed in response to residents who had requested a reduction in “through-traffic and improve safety in the area”.
It comes after the council unanimously voted to pass a motion from Green councillors calling for a “vision-zero” approach to road safety in 2023. The motion aimed to achieve zero road related accidents within Bristol by 2030.
However Tracy Francis, a resident who often uses her bicycle within the area, was concerned about how these dots would impact her as a cyclist.
Ms Francis said that road was already “slippery” and she was worried that the additional markings would mean that her “bike tyres will slide away”, especially when the roads were wet.
Cllr Mark Weston of the Conservative party said the road markings were an “absolutely insane” attempt to balance traffic, and argued there were other more important ways the council could be spending its time and money.
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Frome has multi-coloured diamonds all over the road outside Selwood School…
If it’s not in the official road markings legislation ( https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/contents ), which it won’t be then it’s a waste of paint as it doesn’t mean anything apart from being as the lady said, dangerous to two wheeled traffic.
I wonder how long they will last before the council is compelled to remove them?
I bet all those residents complaining about “through traffic” are quite happy to be through traffic in other people’s neighbourhoods…
There may be back-end shunts as drivers are trying to work out what these marks mean instead of paying attention to the traffic.
Politics is now the domain of those failed pantomime aspirants
Looks illegal to me. Then again all that NHS graffiti was supposed to be illegal
I wonder how many. RTA’s were recoded in the area controlled by Bristol Council in 2024 and how many fatalities. The casualty figures for this particular road would make interesting reading.
Little green men leaving visiting cards?
The motion aimed to achieve zero road related accidents within Bristol by 2030.
Now this is interesting. Is this to be achieved by means of magic? Or are the green despots proposing to abolish road use by 2030? Given the hostility of the Bristol authorities to motorists and motor transport, I suppose it’s the latter.
It’s good to see that the council has fixed all the pot-holes …
Bristol hates motorised traffic. Unless you have no choice, avoid it. Especially and including the airport. Anywhere but Bristol.
Just think of them as lots of mini-roundabouts. It’ll be fine.
I thought they were green traffic lights, indicating you can go as fast as you like.