Great Western Coffee Shop

Due to the amount of cyclists getting their wheels jammed in the grooves,if they are going to remove the rail line,which I don't agree with.

Maybe a line of bricks COULD show where the lines were.

Wouldn’t be the first time:
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=22908.0

Presumably the rail lines are no longer used for their intended purpose? If so, might as well remove them in these circumstances?

Might you provide a source for this please.

There is a discussion about this here (https://www.bristolworld.com/news/historic-bristol-harbour-railway-tracks-should-stay-despite-danger-to-cyclists-says-mayor-3571414).

It seems that mayor Rees was responding to a reply to a Facebook post rather than any concrete proposal. In answer to Taplow Green’s question: the lines are not used for their original purpose, as Bristol’s City Docks are closed to commercial traffic. They are however regularly used by Bristol Museum as part of the Harbour Railway.

Most of the remaining bits of track around Bristol Docks used recessed rails, like tramlines. In other areas of the docks where lines are no longer used, the slot has simply been filled - which is cheaper than digging out the track work, safe, and retains the atmosphere.

Also worth pointing out that the area in front of M Shed is NOT a cycle route - that runs behind M Shed, to avoid this and other dangers.

Once I'd seen that he was okay (just damaged pride) I had to suppress a chuckle the other week when someone on a bike who clearly rode that way on a regular basis given the way he shot round came a cropper in front of M shed.  The signs taking cyclists round the other side are very clear, and the area closed to cyclists is anyway quite busy with pedestrians.

That settles that, at least until the next time. And introduces another local news website!

Yes, BristolWorld was a new one on me. They’ve had a Facebook presence since June 2021.

Maybe they felt the need for a bit of click bait to get them going?

The big groups of local newspapers have noticed that they can launch city sites by just employing a few graduates on near-minimum wage and rolling out their existing content management system.

The "World" sites are from the JPI Media/National World stable, run by David Montgomery, known in the newspaper industry as Rommel because "Montgomery was on our side". Reach plc, which used to be Trinity Mirror, has been launching sites with "Live" branding: Oxfordshire Live appeared last year and seems to spend most of its time writing about Jeremy Clarkson. It's not exactly Woodward & Bernstein...

A new less frightening alternative to Bristol 24/7, perhaps?

In what way is the Bristol 24/7 frightening? It mostly writes about the newest falafel cafe or latest art show. As with its "Live" cousin, it's hardly the peak of investigative journalism – in fact it's only just about journalism and doesn't even pretend to be investigative – but unlike that one, at least its website loads reliably.

Dunno about B247… it’s the Cable that scares me!

Some of the new hipster gin-joints look very worrying, and I'm not sure it manages to maintain neutrality at all times when talking about cars.

Anyway,, hopefully it won't join this unseemly battle to remove Bristol's industrial heritage. Those rail lines are all that keep the numbers of cyclists down to reasonably safe levels in that bit where they aren't supposed to be. That and the grease.

I've been struggling to post a few pictures I took in July 2016 of aforementioned lines.
We were on a (surprise) family birthday meet-up in Bristol for the weekend.
In the M Shed was an exhibition of past Children's TV programmes which sort of kept us interested for a while.
On leaving the M Shed, I was delighted to see a loco shunting a few wagons around, so my weekend was made anyway!
Not sure anyone else was that pleased.
I have in mind there was a wedding party booked to a train ride that day.

I'm unable to post my own pictures, but I'm hoping a certain moderator will be able to insert them for me (so grateful to TonyK) in advance........

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51897429771_52de321496_c.jpg)

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Here's the hierarchy of scariness:
The Post is scared of the 24/7.
The 24/7 is scared of the Cable.
And the Cable is scared of... the Bristolian!
https://thebristolcable.org/2022/03/listen-bristol-unpacked-with-the-bristolian-magazine-the-citys-smiter-of-the-high-and-mighty-or-unfair-trolls/

The Bristolian is rumoured to be scared of Chuck Norris and FoSBR.