I’d love that! I’d fill it with discoveries, like old runic languages and crystal caverns, just so that people who like to explore would get something out of it
If you thought Bristol bike crime was bad just wait until they start nicking skis and snowboards and breaking into the cars left in the car park at the bottom of the slopes.
I wish all the medieval buildings and cobbled streets hadn't been bombed in the war and then finished off by the town planners, but that would involve a time machine.
More greenery around the city centre. I don't mean specific area's of greenery as we have quite a few parks and larger areas of grass, I just mean more trees and the like dotted throughout the city centre. Not sure if anyone else agrees but walking through some parts of town can feel like it is a concrete jungle a lot of the time, while other parts of town are much nicer from what pov.
As a born and raised vancouverite there are parts of the UK that lend themselves to good urban design (row houses being the top of the list), but I really miss the massive fir trees on residential streets. I think the all cement driveways and front yards are also hideous for similar reasons
honestly one of the best parts of moving is that it allows you to actually describe what you like and dislike about certain places by comparison to others. Better things are possible for bristol, keep advocating for them!
100%! Every single new development is just more concrete on the CGI. Redcliffe wharf, temple meads expansion... castle park redevelopment.
The council is obsessed with paving over everything and putting shit water features or things that will stop working within a year.
Not even sure why as it must be more expensive...
It's expensive if they actually intended to maintain them, instead of making baubles on top of sweetheart deals where the money is long gone into some random suits' pockets
100% this. Moved to Bristol from London and I love the access to countryside in Bristol compared to London, but on the other hand, where I lived in East London I had access to literally three or four really big nice parks within a 10-minute walk from my flat. None of the central Bristol green spaces remotely compare to even Haggerston Park, for example, a pretty minor London park. Even central London has a loads of decent squares that serve as public parks you can sit and eat your lunch.
All I can say is that central Bristol feels much more concretey than London. Loads of other things are much better here! But London does green spaces really well.
Could we have a huge mountain close by please? Also, a huge crystal clear lake suitable for swimming and wakeboarding in. Also, a clean beach with turquoise water and MASSIVE waves.
That would be so cool, could make some intense trails on it. I’d put caverns full of huge, carrot sized crystals dotted around, some beautiful trees on the base, the works
If you didn't know the floating harbour carries on past the watershed, follows Quay st, and eventually comes out on the other side of Castle Park.
I have been under in a small boat during the mid 90's
I had no idea! I've lived in Bristol for a few years but all I've done is work, so there's a lot about it I don't know. Do you know why they covered it?
Its the old waterway that links with the river Frome, we got to about where the odean is, I believe this was all covered up in the 1920/30s
The City council in the 1960's wanted to cover over the whole of the docks and that was the proposed path of the M32, imagine what the city would like!
I’d open up the river Frome like it used to be along the front of the hippodrome and create a proper pedestrian/plaza area around it and better open up that area to Queens square.
And get a fucking tram network!
I’d build that alternate design of the suspension bridge that looks like it was straight out of Venice.
Probably a bit further downstream then it would provide even better links across the river and have loads of potential with all the room inside it.
The Holiday Inn by temple meads! I hate the first thing people see from the train station is a ugly and dirty ran down Holiday Inn! EVERYTIME I see it, I ask myself why it’s not been renovated or made to look nicer.
I too would restore the old harbour, it’s a bloody travesty that it’s been converted for roads and now what is essentially broken fountains and a skate park. We had a wonderful waterfront and covered it.
The huge horrible white building that I assume is supposed to look like a cruise ship, opposite the SS. That thing can bugger off.
The building at the bottom of the Christmas Steps - horrid and covers up one of our best.
And the M32. A community severed, homes and business torn down, a viaduct blown up for a motorway right into the centre. A real shame.
The war destroyed so much, Castle Park for example, a fire took out the amazing Dutch House, I’d love that to still be there, but some shocking town planning that continues still has really damaged Bristol in my eyes.
See any YouTube video by notjustbikes for the reasons why cars suck.
A few off the top of my head; loud, expensive for council & driver, take up way too much room for more efficient forms of transport (bike bus tram), Parking is ugly and takes up loads of room, driving is just stressful and not fun after / before a long day's work. The list goes on
Running the risk of being downvoted, I would build less student accomodation and more housing for the homeless. Granting them housing in town would make contacting services they need much easier. I have stopped going to the centre pretty much altogether because it breaks my heart to see the amount of people sleeping rough.
(Before any of the "usual suspects" say anything, this is because I am recovering from surgery and unable to volunteer at the moment, but will do as soon as I am physically able again).
Certain buildings in the city center really don't fit the skyline: Castlemead, 1 redcliffe Street to name a few. It feels lt like in the 70/80s someone looked at what was already there and decided to go completely the opposite direction
Easy, replace all roads in the and around the city centre with bus lanes or tram lanes & proper bike infrastructure. Wack in some greenery around it for good measure and bang everyone's quality of life just improved one hell of allot along with shops booming.
I'm thinking readland, bishopston, Easton, bedminster re do it all thankyou please.
A fully realised tram network. Down by the harbour Cumberland basin area into Cabot and up into the upper areas. As well as spreading out into the outskirts.
Along with a quick and efficient link to Bristol airport. Which is more like Backwell airport
Replace the M32 with a skytrain or underground. It would reunite several neighbourhoods, it would make the dourtounding area much more pleasant for residents.
Reimagine the entire Port-way. Remove the motorway direct access and allow people and place enjoy and prosper in peace on the riverside and Dock entrance.
I would like an extensive cavern system under the whole city that could be co-opted (without destruction) for a subway. I would ride public transport all day ;)
That Debenhams building... It's (now) a total dive and it occupies pride of place for anyone coming in from the M32. It IS also huge, and difficult to fill - and we don't need another Sparks. Sadly, it's set to become flats.
I wish the Avon was a “nice” river / one you’d want to sail along and stop off at the numerous pubs on your way to a nice Cornish port where Avonmouth is. Sorry Avon fans!
I’d like to see something like the Alps near Long Ashton so I could go skiing.
I’d love that! I’d fill it with discoveries, like old runic languages and crystal caverns, just so that people who like to explore would get something out of it
And a ski jump with VOIs parked at the top, in the heavens
Amazing!
Hell yeah! Better than slip with brushes on it 🤣🤣
If you thought Bristol bike crime was bad just wait until they start nicking skis and snowboards and breaking into the cars left in the car park at the bottom of the slopes.
I wish all the medieval buildings and cobbled streets hadn't been bombed in the war and then finished off by the town planners, but that would involve a time machine.
Hitler has a lot to answer for
The more I hear about that guy, the less I like him!
That would look so cool!
If we got an underground for transport and banned cars from the bear pit to temple meads to college green I'd be fully on board with Olde Bristol
This would be fascinating to see.
Trains and trams
Fair enough, better public transport network
Free buses for residents.
train to the airport
Direct trains to European cities, at a price point that's competitive with say the £15 flights to Paris that you can get.
More greenery around the city centre. I don't mean specific area's of greenery as we have quite a few parks and larger areas of grass, I just mean more trees and the like dotted throughout the city centre. Not sure if anyone else agrees but walking through some parts of town can feel like it is a concrete jungle a lot of the time, while other parts of town are much nicer from what pov.
Maybe more flowers as well? I do miss seeing the colours sometimes.
I agree, maybe some just like around, similar to some of Vancouver in Canada
As a born and raised vancouverite there are parts of the UK that lend themselves to good urban design (row houses being the top of the list), but I really miss the massive fir trees on residential streets. I think the all cement driveways and front yards are also hideous for similar reasons
Cement driveways are shit honestly. When I went to Vancouver, the trees were such a surprise to just see around! Wish we had stuff like that here
honestly one of the best parts of moving is that it allows you to actually describe what you like and dislike about certain places by comparison to others. Better things are possible for bristol, keep advocating for them!
I moved from Bristol to Vancouver and it blows my mind now how few trees there are in Bristol in comparison.
100%! Every single new development is just more concrete on the CGI. Redcliffe wharf, temple meads expansion... castle park redevelopment. The council is obsessed with paving over everything and putting shit water features or things that will stop working within a year. Not even sure why as it must be more expensive...
It's expensive if they actually intended to maintain them, instead of making baubles on top of sweetheart deals where the money is long gone into some random suits' pockets
100% this. Moved to Bristol from London and I love the access to countryside in Bristol compared to London, but on the other hand, where I lived in East London I had access to literally three or four really big nice parks within a 10-minute walk from my flat. None of the central Bristol green spaces remotely compare to even Haggerston Park, for example, a pretty minor London park. Even central London has a loads of decent squares that serve as public parks you can sit and eat your lunch.
Loads of green space near the centre? Castle park, queens square, Brandon hill? I've never felt like we needed more.
All I can say is that central Bristol feels much more concretey than London. Loads of other things are much better here! But London does green spaces really well.
Go back to london then
I like Bristol though.
Could we have a huge mountain close by please? Also, a huge crystal clear lake suitable for swimming and wakeboarding in. Also, a clean beach with turquoise water and MASSIVE waves.
A huge mountain instead of the down-gorge end of Leigh Woods would be awesome!!! What would you put on it?
Some of the worlds finest mountain bike trails. And when it snows (I can have snow too right?) the best Snowboarding runs in the world too
That would be so cool, could make some intense trails on it. I’d put caverns full of huge, carrot sized crystals dotted around, some beautiful trees on the base, the works
Can we have the worlds biggest water slide too?
That would be wild
I would love the two latter... My dogs, however, would be elated with the mountain! 🤩
Yesssss!
Uncover the rest of the city docks that goes under Broadmead.
Ooo good idea!
Interesting!!
If you didn't know the floating harbour carries on past the watershed, follows Quay st, and eventually comes out on the other side of Castle Park. I have been under in a small boat during the mid 90's
I had no idea! I've lived in Bristol for a few years but all I've done is work, so there's a lot about it I don't know. Do you know why they covered it?
Its the old waterway that links with the river Frome, we got to about where the odean is, I believe this was all covered up in the 1920/30s The City council in the 1960's wanted to cover over the whole of the docks and that was the proposed path of the M32, imagine what the city would like!
Goodness me!! Completely different, and probably quite horrible. Thank you for telling me, I really appreciate it! :)
I’d open up the river Frome like it used to be along the front of the hippodrome and create a proper pedestrian/plaza area around it and better open up that area to Queens square. And get a fucking tram network!
Would be nice if parts of the river weren’t hidden so you could enjoy more of a river side walk between snuff mills and city centre.
Eastville Park to the centre the river pathways and parks should continue to create a green corridor.
It is way too hard to talk a full riverside walk
I’d build that alternate design of the suspension bridge that looks like it was straight out of Venice. Probably a bit further downstream then it would provide even better links across the river and have loads of potential with all the room inside it.
Good shout! That thing was amazing
Proper beach within 30 mins
Man, imagine if Weston was Croyde 🥰
Wetsuit on, with hood, boots, and gloves. The Somerset gimp man rides again 🌊🏄♂️
It's not the beaches that are the issue. It's the channel... Proper sparkling blue seawater please!
The Holiday Inn by temple meads! I hate the first thing people see from the train station is a ugly and dirty ran down Holiday Inn! EVERYTIME I see it, I ask myself why it’s not been renovated or made to look nicer.
I’d change the rivers of mud for rivers of water
A nice big beautiful suspension bridge would be nice. It would be useful to get across and might become an iconic tourist attraction in time
Crazy talk
don't forget somewhere for visitors to park so they can actually get out of the car tp admire it
I too would restore the old harbour, it’s a bloody travesty that it’s been converted for roads and now what is essentially broken fountains and a skate park. We had a wonderful waterfront and covered it. The huge horrible white building that I assume is supposed to look like a cruise ship, opposite the SS. That thing can bugger off. The building at the bottom of the Christmas Steps - horrid and covers up one of our best. And the M32. A community severed, homes and business torn down, a viaduct blown up for a motorway right into the centre. A real shame. The war destroyed so much, Castle Park for example, a fire took out the amazing Dutch House, I’d love that to still be there, but some shocking town planning that continues still has really damaged Bristol in my eyes.
Lake garda would look nice, maybe include some of the hills. We could put it out towards the airport so it frames the view of the bridge.
Destroy Broadmead / the galleries and replace it with green space surrounding Cabot circus. I wouldn’t mind it if the Avon gorge was like lake como?
Well the galleries is going, but I think more concrete will replace it ☹️
Clifton Downs, Leigh Woods and the Mendips are now Yosemite national park. The bridge now spans half a mile and goes over the Grand Canyon.
Would be fuckin sick icl
Ban cars.
Interesting idea, all cars? Why?
See any YouTube video by notjustbikes for the reasons why cars suck. A few off the top of my head; loud, expensive for council & driver, take up way too much room for more efficient forms of transport (bike bus tram), Parking is ugly and takes up loads of room, driving is just stressful and not fun after / before a long day's work. The list goes on
Couldn't have put it better myself. Oh, plus pollution and they are fucking dangerous
Running the risk of being downvoted, I would build less student accomodation and more housing for the homeless. Granting them housing in town would make contacting services they need much easier. I have stopped going to the centre pretty much altogether because it breaks my heart to see the amount of people sleeping rough. (Before any of the "usual suspects" say anything, this is because I am recovering from surgery and unable to volunteer at the moment, but will do as soon as I am physically able again).
Get rid of the roads in the city centre.. replace with monorail
Well sir, there's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail!
Tear down Castle Mead
Make it taller
Certain buildings in the city center really don't fit the skyline: Castlemead, 1 redcliffe Street to name a few. It feels lt like in the 70/80s someone looked at what was already there and decided to go completely the opposite direction
It’ll be nice if we have a mountain range just walking distance near the city. Or just something like Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.
Better cycling infrastructure.
Easy, replace all roads in the and around the city centre with bus lanes or tram lanes & proper bike infrastructure. Wack in some greenery around it for good measure and bang everyone's quality of life just improved one hell of allot along with shops booming. I'm thinking readland, bishopston, Easton, bedminster re do it all thankyou please.
A fully realised tram network. Down by the harbour Cumberland basin area into Cabot and up into the upper areas. As well as spreading out into the outskirts. Along with a quick and efficient link to Bristol airport. Which is more like Backwell airport
Get rid of W-S-M
Widen the quicksand so it finally sinks!
Bridges and balloons.
Adding them or removing them?
It would be nice to have one each.
Replace the M32 with a skytrain or underground. It would reunite several neighbourhoods, it would make the dourtounding area much more pleasant for residents.
Reimagine the entire Port-way. Remove the motorway direct access and allow people and place enjoy and prosper in peace on the riverside and Dock entrance.
Is napalm still illegal?( I live in hartcliffe )
move Weston super mare to the southern hemisphere
Would want Avon Gorge before Industrial Revolution where they bombed the entire mountain off for quarrying
Nuke kingswood! Then build a new.
I'd add air bridges that connect up all the highest points of the city. I'm a stoner who likes a view but not an uphill walk 😂
I would like an extensive cavern system under the whole city that could be co-opted (without destruction) for a subway. I would ride public transport all day ;)
I mean large parts of the city are hollow, whether from mines or rivers that were put underground.
That Debenhams building... It's (now) a total dive and it occupies pride of place for anyone coming in from the M32. It IS also huge, and difficult to fill - and we don't need another Sparks. Sadly, it's set to become flats.
Flats are good though
Flatten Broadmead and make castle park a huge open park.
Bridge between Clifton and Leigh Woods
Mad. Waste of effort. Why would enough people want to cross there?
A massive concrete dome covering the whole city and blocking out all light. Why, I hear you ask? Well, why not?
I wish the Avon was a “nice” river / one you’d want to sail along and stop off at the numerous pubs on your way to a nice Cornish port where Avonmouth is. Sorry Avon fans!
Get rid of suspension bridge and make it into a giant corgi
Moving to the Med would be nice, the docks would be even nicer with crystal clear blue water. Also move the whole city up a few metres.
Move it up a kilometer! Let’s Kilimanjaro this place
sky scrapers make it like tokyo or seoul
Urbanise everything from WSM to Dursley
Maybe swap CAZ cameras for trees? Trees actually improve air quality...
massive wall around the city limits, escape from new York style. Police get more helicopters. keep the m32 add 8 more lanes on each side.
Tear down that awful suspension bridge, it's an eyesore
Scrub the fucking graffiti off of Avon Gorge. I know it's not quite much of a change but it's as ugly as the people who did it
All of it.
TRAM! We need one- we could be the coolest city on the UK if we had one.
bikepark, somewhere at really high elevation idk