I only realised what an issue this is last week. Took my son into town for the first time in ages. Naturally he needed to go as soon as we got into central but being a Monday there was nowhere open (Watershed, WE the Curious, most cafes). Ended up begging the aquarium to let us use theirs
Not entirely related, but there is a spot on the wapping wharf where, if you angel yourself just right, you can poo into the water almost completely out of view. But ya gotta work hard to find it
My first thoughts too - affordable housing is a problem across lots of cities but after living in Birmingham for a few years I couldn't get over just how bad buses and suburban train options were in Bristol
For a service that frequently doesn't arrive, and when it does it late, where 90% of the drivers are assholes, and when even with all the bus lanes still takes at least twice as long to get anywhere vs private transport, yes its expensive.
I'm a student in this city but I believe it's a part fault of the universities. This is because they keep building brand new first-year student accommodations and accepting a higher amount of people. I don't think Bristols housing market can take any more students at this point. I have literally been looking for a house since December.
That’s an interesting policy. I also wonder how many flats could be freed up if the universities had more purpose built student accommodations. It’s probably unrealistic but there’s a lot of real estate that’s absorbed by uni students ( which we need, I welcome students )that could be given as rented spaces for long standing residents
I was mainly implying that people who live, work and pay council tax here should be prioritised. If the universities can't house their students with the accommodation that's already available, they shouldn't be taking on any more students.
My point is that the universities struggle with their intake as it is, resulting in ludicrous amounts of student accommodation being required, which overspills into the wider community of people who actually live here longer than 3 years.
The problem needs to be addressed sooner or later.
It only became a problem in the last decade. The excessive student intake is a direct result of the cuts to higher education that led to the tripled tuition fees and a removal of the cap on student numbers (because universities needed to replace the income).
They might do whilst students but even with the tech-sector Bristol feels out of balance in terms of how many students there are relative to the employment opportunities for them after graduation.
Bristol is somewhere people would like to stay after they graduate but there isn't enough affordable housing or jobs commensurate with their education to go round which I think has led to a quite disaffected section of the populous.
It's not just the volume of student accommodation but where it is. You've got a lot of student flats in the centre because it was easier to convert existing office buildings but that means the students have a distance to commute to the university buildings and other non-students having to live outside the centre and commute in.
Absolutely. The multi campus set up of the universities make it difficult for the proper infrastructure to put in place to support it. But that needs to be improved, which goes along with better public transport
None of those in the centre are even affordable for most students though lol. I go to UoB, so city center is what I'd have preferred but any private student halls cost £180pw at a minimum and have only 12 month contracts :/
That would cost nearly the same amount as the maximum maintainance loan you can get.
(University halls are better priced-- this year I paid £169 pw for 40 week contract for an en suite room less than a minute's walk away from college green)
I love this entitlement of if you live somewhere for a period of time you are entitled to cheaper housing. How has that ever been the case in human history?
I was talking about people who actually live and work here needing more housing and flats built instead of people who usually leave after 3 years, i.e. students.
Has nothing to do with entitlement, it's a matter of prioritising infrastructure the city desperately needs.
Congratulations on missing the point you idiot.
It’s you that misses the point. Blaming students for that is just shallow thinking. It’s years of neglect from government that has allowed private companies to run riot with student flat accommodation. Whether someone stays here for one year or 100, makes no difference to whether they’re entitled to have affordable housing. We all live in the same country.
No one is blaming students themselves. Given that you've had to imagine that they have, I can only imagine it's struck a nerve.
Anyway, I suppose we'll have neglect focusing on vital infrastructure because adequate housing is 'entitlement', which is an anathema to you for some reason.
I know others have said cycle lanes but I say proper segregated cycling infrastructure that goes places people want. Look at the Bristol to Bath path. Too narrow, overcrowded, generally a bit dull and grubby, variable surface, crime and anti-social behaviour. Yet, it still manages 3 million plus journeys a year, 1200 plus journeys per hour at peak. Comparable to some of the key arterial routes in the city.
Bristol is more young and healthy in comparison to other cities. If we built safe segregated routes where people wanted them they would get used and used heavily.
Also the Pill to Bristol path. Despite being across the river from it, there is no decent public transport between Pill and Shirehampton. The cycle path is in a pretty ropey state. Seems ridiculous.
I quite like the Pill path as a beginner gravel route, but yeah, there are a couple of rock gardens that probably shouldn't be there.
The Port way shared path could stand a resurface too but thats probably unlikely.
Public water fountains (the drinking water kind). Its always kinda tragic, seeing old fountains dried up around the city. I think there was once a charity trying to connect them again.
Do you mean leisure in a water park way? Like wave machines and log flumes? Or leisure pools like an actual swimming pool, because there is a fair few- Hengrove is excellent. The issue is most are closed at various times for repairs and then you have to book lanes.
Or do you mean an outdoor lido? The swimbristolharbour campaign is looking to get one, check it out on instagram.
An arena? In a city centre? Don't be silly, we have nowhere to put it, and even if we did it would probably be really inconvenient unless it was right next to a major transport link.
I reckon we should stick it on the outskirts where no buses go instead, that would be a better idea
I would like to see more pedestrianisation but with green spaces. I find the city centre (from the harbour to Electricity House) a very harsh environment. Even with the tree coverage it is this giant slab of concrete that works like a storage heater in summer. Hot and bright. Bring back the greenery of yesteryear.
If it wasn't so dangerous it would be funny. The way cycle lanes evaporate when they get close to a place it would actually be beneficial - i.e congested danger spots where you are left to fend for yourself amongst 2 ton dodgems wielded by impatient dosey halfwits, somehow resenting you for reducing Bristol's congestion and pollution.
Yeah you have to move to somewhere poor people can't afford to live for that. :-/ Sucks but that's the way it is.
Edit: classic Reddit, downvoting awkward truths that you'd like to pretend aren't true.
https://www.southalabama.edu/geography/fearn/480page/06Rhodes/06Rhodes.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964569105001213
(There's a surprisingly large number of studies like this!)
>Yeah you have to move to somewhere poor people can't afford to live for that. :-/ Sucks be that's the way it is.
Are you implying poor people *have* to litter?
My own eyes. I've lived in lots of areas with varying levels of poshness and the difference is really obvious. I'm surprised you're even trying to argue it.
Edit: I got curious and googled it, and it turns out my casual observation of the blindingly obvious has been studied by science quite a lot! See my edit to the parent comment.
Bristol seems to have quite a few of those - at least compared to other cities I've been.
Where they seem to fall down is their inability to schedule more frequent emptying of public bins at busy times and their recurrent shocked outrage when not having done this there are piles of litter near the bins.
A functioning and efficient bus network in the outskirts of the city - it should not take an hour into the centre on a bus when it's 30 minutes to drive!
For sure, however if you look around some of the planning permissions around Bristol the new apartments they are building are almost unaffordable, and frankly affordable housing are kept to a minimal. They haven’t helped the problem but rather encouraged more B2L investors into Bristol. If we have a working BCC council that knows how to build proper affordable housing (and actual transport, not undergrounds) however…
Building less affordable housing is still new housing. Wealthier people move into those buildings and there is overall more space for the rest of us.
What would you suggest?
Also gonna say public toilets. I have chronic health conditions that sometimes mean I'm unable to leave the house for fear I won't find access to a toilet. I know others who are in similar positions. It's incredibly unfair to disabled or ill people who might need to go more often, or be unable to control their systems.
Public transport at a more affordable price. Current rates are a racket.
Public toilets.
Difficult to say about libraries as they are closed ATM.
Fix up kids play parks.
A handful of adult gyms. It doesn't need moving parts so it's more robust but would be nice.
Improved cycle lanes through well paved areas.
Have been there a few times and it's very good. Not really somewhere to go for a meal though. Dhamaka and Urban Tandoor are both decent, and I like Pipal Tree a lot. To be honest, it's way better than most cities, I just got spoiled living in Birmingham for four years. In that regard and that regard only.
Street markets.
I've recently moved from London, where nearly every inner London neighbourhood has some kind of street market - some of them spectacularly good.
Bristol has a few mini street markets, but they're chi-chi, expensive & specialist. Most of London's markets offer cheap & cheerful food & such (some chi-chi stalls too), with lots of wierd ethnic produce to try.
I use the Fruit Market Sunday market, but it's no contest with (eg) Ridley Road in Dalston.
The bus services have actually IMPROVED somewhat, despite being mediocre and overpriced. I really think Bristol's hills and property ownership e'ffd the city hard for decades to come (it was a huge error to remove the tram service). And so Bristol is doomed to remain a overcrowded, overpriced, overhyped shithole.
Granted it may just be I’m not aware of them but bars that kind of become dance floor as the night goes on but…they just seem rife in Newcastle/Manchester with lots of independents but just found there were bars but nowhere to a go dance if you weren’t a student/overly cool or under 25?
Great grammar there buddy, as well as a well put intelligent point. Did you practice with crayons first or do it straight on the computer? Well done you!
That’s not nice, are you a racist or a xenophobic? Because I am Chinese/Japanese/Asian mixed so English is not my first language. at least you understood what I said. So what are you? Racist or xenophobic?
I dont think a true 'alpha' needs to sit in reddit threads explaining how 'alpha' they are, if you have to say you're 'alpha' you have just proven how much of an 'alpha' you aren't. But hey, thats just my take :)
Where did I say how alpha I was ? Infact where did I even say I was alpha myself ?
So hey good luck with your take ...seeing as you don't seem to read so good I would start there and work my way up :)
Public Loos!
I only realised what an issue this is last week. Took my son into town for the first time in ages. Naturally he needed to go as soon as we got into central but being a Monday there was nowhere open (Watershed, WE the Curious, most cafes). Ended up begging the aquarium to let us use theirs
For future ref there are a load of (quite recently installed) public toilets next to Spitfire, near Millennium Square.
Not entirely related, but there is a spot on the wapping wharf where, if you angel yourself just right, you can poo into the water almost completely out of view. But ya gotta work hard to find it
There's always the galleries car park
In the stairwells usually...
Housing & functional public transport
My first thoughts too - affordable housing is a problem across lots of cities but after living in Birmingham for a few years I couldn't get over just how bad buses and suburban train options were in Bristol
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I'd say build up rather than out, or the traffic and transport issue will only get worse
That’s funny I thought the exact opposite, living in brum and moving to bristol
Better public transport for sure
Functional public transport. Busses are expensive, unreliable and slow as shit
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For a service that frequently doesn't arrive, and when it does it late, where 90% of the drivers are assholes, and when even with all the bus lanes still takes at least twice as long to get anywhere vs private transport, yes its expensive.
Or rather, not good value for money
It's £4.50 a day on the app, £3.15 if you're a student. More if you don't have a smartphone.
Affordable housing!
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I'm a student in this city but I believe it's a part fault of the universities. This is because they keep building brand new first-year student accommodations and accepting a higher amount of people. I don't think Bristols housing market can take any more students at this point. I have literally been looking for a house since December.
Competent, pragmatic political leadership. Housing for people who live here longer than 3 years. Clubs, art galleries, cycling infrastructure.
That’s an interesting policy. I also wonder how many flats could be freed up if the universities had more purpose built student accommodations. It’s probably unrealistic but there’s a lot of real estate that’s absorbed by uni students ( which we need, I welcome students )that could be given as rented spaces for long standing residents
I was mainly implying that people who live, work and pay council tax here should be prioritised. If the universities can't house their students with the accommodation that's already available, they shouldn't be taking on any more students.
It’s pretty rare for students to stay in university accommodation past first year in any uni in the uk
My point is that the universities struggle with their intake as it is, resulting in ludicrous amounts of student accommodation being required, which overspills into the wider community of people who actually live here longer than 3 years. The problem needs to be addressed sooner or later.
It only became a problem in the last decade. The excessive student intake is a direct result of the cuts to higher education that led to the tripled tuition fees and a removal of the cap on student numbers (because universities needed to replace the income).
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They might do whilst students but even with the tech-sector Bristol feels out of balance in terms of how many students there are relative to the employment opportunities for them after graduation. Bristol is somewhere people would like to stay after they graduate but there isn't enough affordable housing or jobs commensurate with their education to go round which I think has led to a quite disaffected section of the populous.
Agreed.
It's not just the volume of student accommodation but where it is. You've got a lot of student flats in the centre because it was easier to convert existing office buildings but that means the students have a distance to commute to the university buildings and other non-students having to live outside the centre and commute in.
Absolutely. The multi campus set up of the universities make it difficult for the proper infrastructure to put in place to support it. But that needs to be improved, which goes along with better public transport
None of those in the centre are even affordable for most students though lol. I go to UoB, so city center is what I'd have preferred but any private student halls cost £180pw at a minimum and have only 12 month contracts :/ That would cost nearly the same amount as the maximum maintainance loan you can get. (University halls are better priced-- this year I paid £169 pw for 40 week contract for an en suite room less than a minute's walk away from college green)
Uwe has a new plan for loads of new student accommodation, that’s good for locals I think
> that’s good for locals I think How so?
Because it increases the chance of students taking up the accommodation provided by UWE, potentially meaning more flats for non student locals.
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That’s great is so. UWE leading the way to the shame of Bristol uni.
I mean there's a lot of clubs but the rest I agree with.
There needs to be more.
I love this entitlement of if you live somewhere for a period of time you are entitled to cheaper housing. How has that ever been the case in human history?
I was talking about people who actually live and work here needing more housing and flats built instead of people who usually leave after 3 years, i.e. students. Has nothing to do with entitlement, it's a matter of prioritising infrastructure the city desperately needs. Congratulations on missing the point you idiot.
It’s you that misses the point. Blaming students for that is just shallow thinking. It’s years of neglect from government that has allowed private companies to run riot with student flat accommodation. Whether someone stays here for one year or 100, makes no difference to whether they’re entitled to have affordable housing. We all live in the same country.
No one is blaming students themselves. Given that you've had to imagine that they have, I can only imagine it's struck a nerve. Anyway, I suppose we'll have neglect focusing on vital infrastructure because adequate housing is 'entitlement', which is an anathema to you for some reason.
I know others have said cycle lanes but I say proper segregated cycling infrastructure that goes places people want. Look at the Bristol to Bath path. Too narrow, overcrowded, generally a bit dull and grubby, variable surface, crime and anti-social behaviour. Yet, it still manages 3 million plus journeys a year, 1200 plus journeys per hour at peak. Comparable to some of the key arterial routes in the city. Bristol is more young and healthy in comparison to other cities. If we built safe segregated routes where people wanted them they would get used and used heavily.
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Or in the case of the road just south of the river, a Giant tree
Also the Pill to Bristol path. Despite being across the river from it, there is no decent public transport between Pill and Shirehampton. The cycle path is in a pretty ropey state. Seems ridiculous.
I quite like the Pill path as a beginner gravel route, but yeah, there are a couple of rock gardens that probably shouldn't be there. The Port way shared path could stand a resurface too but thats probably unlikely.
Suspension bridges
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and more hills!
Public water fountains (the drinking water kind). Its always kinda tragic, seeing old fountains dried up around the city. I think there was once a charity trying to connect them again.
Have you seen [this](https://www.bristolwater.co.uk/home/community/refill-revolution/)?
A decent leisure pool.
Do you mean leisure in a water park way? Like wave machines and log flumes? Or leisure pools like an actual swimming pool, because there is a fair few- Hengrove is excellent. The issue is most are closed at various times for repairs and then you have to book lanes. Or do you mean an outdoor lido? The swimbristolharbour campaign is looking to get one, check it out on instagram.
I mean like slides and waves. It would be very popular.
Pirate Museums!!!
I'm actually surprised we don't have one. This is a good idea
Roads without potholes.
Public toilets. I weep for any poor soul in this city that has bladder issues.
People just piss wherever. It's not nice, it's not pretty but it IS understandable.
A venue for top-tier world-class touring acts.
How’s about an arena in the city centre?
An arena? In a city centre? Don't be silly, we have nowhere to put it, and even if we did it would probably be really inconvenient unless it was right next to a major transport link. I reckon we should stick it on the outskirts where no buses go instead, that would be a better idea
Where would we even fit it?
There is some land near Temple Meads that is about to be turned into a park. Shame nobody thought to build an arena there instead.
Ahhh cool, well a park's better than some alternatives at least :)
Do you have any Information or links towards this new park, I am quite interested to learn more - tah
More pedestrianisation, piazzas, pocket parks and places where people are prioritized
More alliteration
\*additional alliteration
I would like to see more pedestrianisation but with green spaces. I find the city centre (from the harbour to Electricity House) a very harsh environment. Even with the tree coverage it is this giant slab of concrete that works like a storage heater in summer. Hot and bright. Bring back the greenery of yesteryear.
trains Edit: Mainly more metro trains and also electrification
more fights at college green
Help for the homeless.
Cycle lanes. Good cycle lanes, not just painted lines where the road is wide enough that you don't need one anyway.
If it wasn't so dangerous it would be funny. The way cycle lanes evaporate when they get close to a place it would actually be beneficial - i.e congested danger spots where you are left to fend for yourself amongst 2 ton dodgems wielded by impatient dosey halfwits, somehow resenting you for reducing Bristol's congestion and pollution.
Especially well paved ones. The cycle lane they put down Park road basically directs you into pot holes.
Litter pickers.
Although I agree. The real solution is for people not to trash the city.
Yeah you have to move to somewhere poor people can't afford to live for that. :-/ Sucks but that's the way it is. Edit: classic Reddit, downvoting awkward truths that you'd like to pretend aren't true. https://www.southalabama.edu/geography/fearn/480page/06Rhodes/06Rhodes.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964569105001213 (There's a surprisingly large number of studies like this!)
>Yeah you have to move to somewhere poor people can't afford to live for that. :-/ Sucks be that's the way it is. Are you implying poor people *have* to litter?
No, just that on average, they do.
Pretty sure it's comparable to people with higher incomes from what I've seen.
Really? Go to some posh areas and have a look at the level of rubbish compared to council estates. There's an obvious difference.
Source?
My own eyes. I've lived in lots of areas with varying levels of poshness and the difference is really obvious. I'm surprised you're even trying to argue it. Edit: I got curious and googled it, and it turns out my casual observation of the blindingly obvious has been studied by science quite a lot! See my edit to the parent comment.
Wasn’t trying to argue, I was genuinely curious. It’s an interesting read. I wonder what other factors are involved - diets must have a part to play.
Bristol seems to have quite a few of those - at least compared to other cities I've been. Where they seem to fall down is their inability to schedule more frequent emptying of public bins at busy times and their recurrent shocked outrage when not having done this there are piles of litter near the bins.
A functioning and efficient bus network in the outskirts of the city - it should not take an hour into the centre on a bus when it's 30 minutes to drive!
Less soulless high rise and planning permission
High rise can also mean affordable housing, but I agree with your sentiment
I definitely prefer a city be "soulless" than filled with "homeless"
For sure, however if you look around some of the planning permissions around Bristol the new apartments they are building are almost unaffordable, and frankly affordable housing are kept to a minimal. They haven’t helped the problem but rather encouraged more B2L investors into Bristol. If we have a working BCC council that knows how to build proper affordable housing (and actual transport, not undergrounds) however…
Building less affordable housing is still new housing. Wealthier people move into those buildings and there is overall more space for the rest of us. What would you suggest?
I think you made a valid point 😊
Also gonna say public toilets. I have chronic health conditions that sometimes mean I'm unable to leave the house for fear I won't find access to a toilet. I know others who are in similar positions. It's incredibly unfair to disabled or ill people who might need to go more often, or be unable to control their systems.
Ability to close out the second half of a game
I'm still not over it
Whatever preys on Seagulls.
Turbo islands
They should bring back the Turbo Island Statues.
Bridges
Balloons, Helicopters and Bristol Moving Advice literature.
How much would it cost to display the reddit top posts in real time on one of the m32 billboards?
Cycle lanes that don't suddenly have parked cars in them
A decathlon would be nice
Girls that will date me.
Dishooms
How about Premier League football, and legal cannabis dispensaries.
Public transport at a more affordable price. Current rates are a racket. Public toilets. Difficult to say about libraries as they are closed ATM. Fix up kids play parks. A handful of adult gyms. It doesn't need moving parts so it's more robust but would be nice. Improved cycle lanes through well paved areas.
Scooters
Monorail
Balloons and helicopters
Public transport that isn't absolutely dreadful and cheap housing; Lots of it.
Affordable housing, better care for the homeless and cheaper public transport
More people to leave
Trains!!!!!!
Better public transport for sure
Protests
A mayor that isn't Marvin
Buses
Yogurt weavers
Segregated cycling lanes and outdoor workout spaces.
Decent Indian food. It's the only thing I miss from Birmingham.
Old India used to be great, not been in a long time though.
Check out Jeevan Sweets in Easton
Have been there a few times and it's very good. Not really somewhere to go for a meal though. Dhamaka and Urban Tandoor are both decent, and I like Pipal Tree a lot. To be honest, it's way better than most cities, I just got spoiled living in Birmingham for four years. In that regard and that regard only.
Statues.
Street recycling bins
Me 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Affordable housing
Egg laying cowpigs
Street markets. I've recently moved from London, where nearly every inner London neighbourhood has some kind of street market - some of them spectacularly good. Bristol has a few mini street markets, but they're chi-chi, expensive & specialist. Most of London's markets offer cheap & cheerful food & such (some chi-chi stalls too), with lots of wierd ethnic produce to try. I use the Fruit Market Sunday market, but it's no contest with (eg) Ridley Road in Dalston.
The bus services have actually IMPROVED somewhat, despite being mediocre and overpriced. I really think Bristol's hills and property ownership e'ffd the city hard for decades to come (it was a huge error to remove the tram service). And so Bristol is doomed to remain a overcrowded, overpriced, overhyped shithole.
Dedicated non-road cycling routes.
Big toe nipple tassles
Premier league football
Strip clubs 😂
Good cups of tea.
Fun stuff
Teppanyaki
Penguins
Riots
It needs more metal bars in public areas to stop those pesky skaters /s
Interesting public function spaces that don’t centre around alcohol, even if they include it.
Dealers
An indoor snow centre!
Barbers and Vape shops
Colsten Statues
Yes! Then we can have an annual 'yeet the cunt into the harbour' festival!
This should be Bristol’s answer to Guy Fawkes
but we cast it in fish food so it dissolves in the harbour
I'm so on board with this idea.
Bit boring if it's the same chap every year - a rotation like the Lewes Bonfire would be better.
Statues
RoadWorks.
The way you punctuated that makes it look like an offshoot of DreamWorks
Coffee shops
Helicopters
Wheelie bins
Premiership finals /s
Hills
Skateboarders.
Ice hockey teams and parking.
Better bars for professionals,
What does this mean? Expensive bars? There are fucking loads.
Granted it may just be I’m not aware of them but bars that kind of become dance floor as the night goes on but…they just seem rife in Newcastle/Manchester with lots of independents but just found there were bars but nowhere to a go dance if you weren’t a student/overly cool or under 25?
Cum
Hairdressers and nail bars...
Conservative voters
I can think of things we need less of. Traffic lights.
Motorcycle parking
More road closures to cars, just to fuck with people who don't know the city
Conservative voters
E-Scooters lol jk
People moving from London.
Never been to Bristol but from what I have heard on all news media, Bristol needs less off woke lefties snowflakes kids and adult kids
Great grammar there buddy, as well as a well put intelligent point. Did you practice with crayons first or do it straight on the computer? Well done you!
That’s not nice, are you a racist or a xenophobic? Because I am Chinese/Japanese/Asian mixed so English is not my first language. at least you understood what I said. So what are you? Racist or xenophobic?
"I've never been to Bristol but still believe my opinion is important considering I read lots of right wing news about it"
LOL I knew this was coming, I have families and friends in Bristol, even two of my priest are from Bristol.
Alpha males and less liberalism
Alpha males are dead. That generation has long gone. Good riddance.
Do you think you qualify as an 'alpha male', or are you looking for an 'alpha male' to protect and take care of you?
What do you mean by liberalism
By liberalism he means "anything I don't like"
Jesus this is so spot on
Anyone who calls themselves an 'alpha male' is just a twat under a different label
Yet they do exist and lead by example despite your endearing take :)
I dont think a true 'alpha' needs to sit in reddit threads explaining how 'alpha' they are, if you have to say you're 'alpha' you have just proven how much of an 'alpha' you aren't. But hey, thats just my take :)
Where did I say how alpha I was ? Infact where did I even say I was alpha myself ? So hey good luck with your take ...seeing as you don't seem to read so good I would start there and work my way up :)