Now, I don't like the new trails for many reasons - I don't find them particularly engaging, I don't like the surface (especially the lack of roots) and I don't like the way the Rim Trail/Don't Look Down is now effectively a one-way access path (which, in turn, makes me think of that rubbish band 'One Direction') - oh, and berms & whoops are the antithesis of woodland riding, imo - but these are just my own curmudgeonly prejudices, which are no more likely to change than my inability to do backflips. Whatever, I'll learn to live with it (and I greatly welcome the apparent increase in new mountain bikers). 
But what does worry me is the number of walkers, runners, dogs etc that seem to be straying onto the new trails. Although trail exits/entrances are reasonably well-signed, it's now possible to hit the various sections at much greater speed than in ye olde days - to the probable surprise of anybody walking in the opposite direction. Much of LW isn't an 'open' environment like Ashton Court - it's a pretty tangled & potentially confusing network, used by all sorts, and especially at weekends (indeed, today we encountered a sealed-knot type dressed as Robin Hood, as the happy sounds of hand-to-hand combat indicated skirmishes elsewhere*). Anyway, somewhere near the Rice Bowl we met a guy with two kids & a dog walking up the new trail - and judging by the squeal of brakes and general shouting, they had already met mountain bikers coming the other way. Needless to say, I directed them towards the nearest forestry path. I don't know what the solution is (more signs...?), but - in the immortal words of the Hill Street Blues - "Let's be careful out there..."
(*we also found one fancy-lookin' white hi-heel lady's shoe, discarded an improbable distance into the woods, and beside a trail - I am intrigued...)
- and I only had a multi-tool.
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