How Green is Bristol? What does being a Green city mean anyway? And what about the Green ways of getting around Bristol - walking and cycling? Your grumpy old man about town looks for answers.
Is there anything here that you think is untrue or unfair? Why not put the record straight by posting a comment. All I ask is that you make your points in a civilised way.
Erstwhile cycle campaigner now obliged to earn an honest living. I bear some responsibility for changes in transport thinking in Bristol that emerged in the 1980s and 90s, notably traffic restraint and traffic calming as well as the promotion of cycling.
I am now disillusioned with the lack of progress and the relentless rise in our car dependency.
Although a Green in the broadest sense of someone who considers caring for our environment a fundamental duty, I am not a member of the Green Party or any other political group.
I'm currently a member of Bristol Cycling Campaign and Bristol Living Streets (formerly Pedestrians' Association) but do not claim to represent their views either.
Although once a socialist I now have libertarian, free-market tendencies so views expressed here are unlikely to be representative of the Green movement in general.
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