Bedminster Gentrification

A saturday lunchtime and what do we see parallel to East Street?

Not one, but two BMW SUVs on double yellow lines: MV06FUE and SG04TRU. This road, "Little paradise" is on the malago cycle route, hence the small bicycles on the road, showing where cyclists need to be if they want to get doored by the BMWs

If any doubted the fact that Bedminster was now becoming part of the greater southville gentrification quarter -or that residents of Southville didn't secretly drive over to Bedminster to shop, they are wrong
 
What you don't get is people cycling there, as apart from the 12 bicycles filling the six racks that Asda provides, there are no more bicycles in the entire, vast, car park

Cr*p parking

We don't normally resort to foul language here in the traffic blog, but this literally is cra*p parking. Here we can see the driver has thought about non-car owning pedestrians and left just enough space for them to squeeze past on a sliver of asphalt or face the doggy-do gravel run. Interesting fun for blind and partially sighted people heading to the RNIB office just a bit further along the lane. Thank goodness there aren't any tax-dodging pavement cyclists around to cause even more trouble!.