Jakester – Member
mst – Member
I was there yesterday, traffic and parking is horrendous.
It is, not really helped by an incoherent transport policy and the council having selected a contractor to implement part of that policy who promptly went bust, leaving a number of projects unfinished.
Problem is they want to attract tourists, but don’t want them driving into the city, so they put parking prices up and close down/sell off car parks. Unfortunately they don’t really think of the effect that has on locals.
If only they’d man up for an A46/A36 link at Batheaston/Bathford then the whole city would be transformed.
Sorry, rant over.
Sadly, this is all so very, very true. Stupid bastards in BANES council have announced their latest example of collective madness by selling off the multistory part of Avon Street car park for development, losing 260-odd places in the centre of the city!
Oh, but people wanting to come in to the city to shop, go to the cinema/theatre/club/pub can car-share, cycle, use public transport…
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Try catching a train after 10.30pm, or a bus to anywhere that isn’t Bristol or Chippenham.
Anyhoo, anywhere around the Abbey is going to be wall-to-wall humanity with the Xmas Market opening, there will be coachloads from Cardiff, Norfolk…
Which means there are still places to have a wander round as have already been mentioned, along Walcott Street, up along the Paragon, across in front of the Royal Crescent, along Gay Street and the Circus, Bartlett Street, around Victoria Park. Plenty of pubs, the Raven, St James’s Wine Vaults, just off Julian Road not far from the top of Victoria Park, check out Pulteney Bridge and Wier, Sydney Gardens and the museum, walk back into the city along the K&A Canal, then along the river to the Rec and Pulteney Bridge…
There’s koads to explore or just wander around with a camera in Bath, it’s such a compact city, dead easy to see most of it in a day or two, whereas Bristol is much more spread out.
Enjoy! 😀