southbristolvoice April 2017 No. 23
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FREE EVERY MONTH in Totterdown, Knowle and Windmill Hill Compromise on cycle way through park AGREEMENT could be close between residents and the council on a cycle route through Victoria Park. The council promised to consult more widely after ditching a plan for a 4.7m-wide “cycle superhighway” in January, following massive opposition. Now, campaign group Forward Together hopes the cycleway will be kept to 3m wide. It won’t be segregated, but will be shared by cyclists and pedestrians. Forward Together say it will be safer because no-one will feel they have sole rights over it, and everyone will watch out for other users. Many cyclists, however, will argue that a route which keeps cyclists and pedestrians apart is safer. The row over the council’s planning application for the cycleway became heated in January, with opponents of the scheme accused of being “anti-cycling”. Forward Together denied this, and the council withdrew the plan in the face of more than 600 objections, most of them from people living near the park. More than 450 people wrote in support of the plan,
A berry good idea! AN AMBITIOUS new idea could take root on a patch of green space in South Bristol – our first public maze. Harry Ward, 9, is holding up his winning design for a Berry Maze on the Malago open space. But the plan needs funds – see story on Page 15. though most were not from Windmill Hill. The new route runs from the corner of Hill Avenue and Nutgrove Avenue to Windmill Close along the existing path, passing between the 5-a-side pitch and the old wetland area. The current path varies from 1.6m wide to 2.8m, and would be widened to 3m, except for a stretch parallel to the railway
line, which is already 3.2m. Residents who objected to the tall lampposts in the previous plan are hoping the council will agree to lights in bollards just 1m high, possibly timed to go off late at night. Forward Together told officials the park’s Dark Sky status must be preserved, and bats and other wildlife protected. The council also appears to be Continued on page 9
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