Climate protesters block roads

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bristolbaron

4,756 posts

211 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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juice said:
300K to police the protest. How much would you wager for the economic damage to Bristol ?

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/ex...
I’ll be honest, these XR guys have been winding me up a little this week, but the diabolical use of quotation marks in this article has me reaching for the ‘TTAYBR’ thread mad

juice

8,509 posts

281 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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Should be OK today. It's raining biggrin

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

227 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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Wouldn't it be great if everyone could cycle into the city. No jams then.

Just ride past the idiots with a wave shouting 'ha ha, fk you.'

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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1ians said:
You make it down to check out the protest on Bristol Bridge? Must admit it made me remember why I love Bristol. Was a great friendly street party with an educational message. Massively disagree with blocking the M32 though, although the police did step in.

Fully expect traffic to be rubbish tomorrow due to the harbour festival and the resultant bridge swings, and that’s before the protest. Couple of weeks time it’ll then be rubbish because of the balloon fiesta. And there might be a few car free days before. Last few months the traffic was horrific due to the concerts etc.

The volume of cars is not sustainable, there’s too much traffic and no where to park. I love driving but ditched clinging to my car for the daily commute a few years back.
Really ? Closing Bristol Bridge for a party is ok ? I work near there and it is a joke. I have a hospital appointment today, so hopefully they don't close off more random roads again.
The traffic is normally bad, but that is made worse by the piss poor road layout and constant roadworks. There is plenty of parking too, if you know where to look. The NCP I use is very rarely full.


Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 19th July 07:54

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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1ians said:
The volume of cars is not sustainable, there’s too much traffic and no where to park. I love driving but ditched clinging to my car for the daily commute a few years back.
Exactly, traffic finds it's own level.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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juice said:
Should be OK today. It's raining biggrin
Pouring it down in Bristol currently. No protesters on Cumberland Basin that I could see. High tide is around 10.30 I believe, but hopefully it will still be raining and they will stay away.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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Grahamdub said:
juice said:
Should be OK today. It's raining biggrin
Pouring it down in Bristol currently. No protesters on Cumberland Basin that I could see. High tide is around 10.30 I believe, but hopefully it will still be raining and they will stay away.
Best policeman there is.

GloverMart

11,773 posts

214 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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techiedave said:
Grahamdub said:
juice said:
Should be OK today. It's raining biggrin
Pouring it down in Bristol currently. No protesters on Cumberland Basin that I could see. High tide is around 10.30 I believe, but hopefully it will still be raining and they will stay away.
Best policeman there is.
hehe

Aztec West was all quiet this morning although at 8am it was dry. Now hoofing it down so unless my cynicism is misplaced, can't see too many doing any protesting while the weather is like this.

turbobloke

103,744 posts

259 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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Grahamdub said:
1ians said:
You make it down to check out the protest on Bristol Bridge? Must admit it made me remember why I love Bristol. Was a great friendly street party with an educational message. Massively disagree with blocking the M32 though, although the police did step in.

Fully expect traffic to be rubbish tomorrow due to the harbour festival and the resultant bridge swings, and that’s before the protest. Couple of weeks time it’ll then be rubbish because of the balloon fiesta. And there might be a few car free days before. Last few months the traffic was horrific due to the concerts etc.

The volume of cars is not sustainable, there’s too much traffic and no where to park. I love driving but ditched clinging to my car for the daily commute a few years back.
Really ? Closing Bristol Bridge for a party is ok ? I work near there and it is a joke. I have a hospital appointment today, so hopefully they don't close off more random roads again.
Exactly. The educational message is don't obstruct traffic and cause misery to the people you want support from.

The other 'educational' message is bogus as these are people being used and abused by an extrreme political movement which has adopted a cuddly cause to achieve its ends, as evidenced several times earlier in the thread.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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funkyrobot said:
Wouldn't it be great if everyone could cycle into the city. No jams then.

Just ride past the idiots with a wave shouting 'ha ha, fk you.'
Surely a noisy old motorbike would be better as they want you to ditch your cars and crush your testes?

ofcorsa

3,527 posts

242 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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These guys are really protesting in the wrong country.

R Mutt

5,882 posts

71 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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ofcorsa said:
These guys are really protesting in the wrong country.
They're banging on about how green China is now believe it or not.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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R Mutt said:
ofcorsa said:
These guys are really protesting in the wrong country.
They're banging on about how green China is now believe it or not.
I understand they're building a city that's 100% green, ignoring the fact that the rest of China is the complete opposite. It's like a fat person ordering diet coke with their Big Mac meal and then successfully convincing their thick mates that they're on a diet.

Camoradi

4,285 posts

255 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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I imagine the XR protestors will take today's rain as a sign that Mother Earth is so grateful for their efforts to save her over the last few days, that she would like them to take a day off hippy




T-195

2,671 posts

60 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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funkyrobot said:
Wouldn't it be great if everyone could cycle into the city. No jams then.

Just ride past the idiots with a wave shouting 'ha ha, fk you.'
Believe it or not, not everyone lives close enough to where they work that they can cycle in. There would be far less cars in London if Tube or Train fares were less extortionate. Who's fault is that?

GloverMart

11,773 posts

214 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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Camoradi said:
I imagine the XR protestors will take today's rain as a sign that Mother Earth is so grateful for their efforts to save her over the last few days, that she would like them to take a day off hippy
Update: Protestors in Bristol have begun a march around the city. The anticipated route is going to be from College Green to St Augustine's Parade, then on to the Bearpit, around the Horsefair, Broadweir, Wine Street, Baldwin Street, and then back to College Green.

motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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It's interesting that very little is being reported on the TV and radio news lately. They were all over them before but not any more.

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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GloverMart said:
hehe

Aztec West was all quiet this morning although at 8am it was dry. Now hoofing it down so unless my cynicism is misplaced, can't see too many doing any protesting while the weather is like this.
so they'll only protest when the weather is conducive to getting a tan? twunts

turbobloke

103,744 posts

259 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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irocfan said:
GloverMart said:
hehe

Aztec West was all quiet this morning although at 8am it was dry. Now hoofing it down so unless my cynicism is misplaced, can't see too many doing any protesting while the weather is like this.
so they'll only protest when the weather is conducive to getting a tan? twunts
They'll mass up and avert a catastrophe and save the planet - unless it's raining when never before has so little has been saved by so few.

For the braver souls recycled paper / cardboard brollies will surely be in use to educate us.

Vizsla

922 posts

123 months

Friday 19th July 2019
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motco said:
It's interesting that very little is being reported on the TV and radio news lately. They were all over them before but not any more.
I'm old enough to have observed a certain 'rinse and repeat' scenario here:

50's - 60's Ban the Bomb, Flower Power
Stated aim: Ban the Bomb, turn-on, tune-in, drop-out
Real aim: smash the military/industrial complex
Result: total failure, more, not fewer, countries with nuclear weapons, not many terrorists with 'flowers in their hair'

90's Animal Rights
Stated aim: save the cute bunnies and fluffy kittens (nobody gave a st about millions of non-cute rats however)
Real aim: smash big pharma using intimidation and violence
Result: abject failure, huge global increase in demand (China, India, Russia) for new medicines, esp. biologics.

2000's G7/G8/G20 protests
Started aim: halt globalisation
Real aim: smash big banks, capitalism, financial systems
Result: failure, business as usual, even after 2008 life goes on

2010's Environmentalism
Stated aim: save the planet
Real aim: smash big oil, decimate consumerism, redistribute global wealth, back to an [never existed] idyllic existence
Predicted result: failure once people wake up to the realities

Same as, same as, all these 'causes' mastered by bitter, self-righteous misfits/failures with a virulent, oh-so-superior sneering hatred of, well, practically everything about life that most people value and enjoy.

Sad thing is, there always seems to be a ready supply of misguided cannon fodder only too willing to do the actual heavy lifting.