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Letter to Voters by Marvin Rees: Improving transport, getting our underground I want to restate my ambitious vision for my home city, ahead of May 6 local elections
10:53, 30 APR 2021
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Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees (Image: Lisa Whiting Photography)
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For too long, Bristol has been congested and polluted. When it comes to tackling these problems, our local councils have felt as gridlocked as the city s roads.
We ve grabbed transport in the city by the scruff of the neck - recognising that to build a better Bristol where nobody is left behind, we need a transport system where people can get around at as little cost to them and to the planet as possible.
Bristol City Council elections 2021: The most hotly-contested wards in 2016
In many places the race for second is just as imprtant as for the overall winner
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In the 2016 local elections, some councillors were elected with comfortable majorities.
However, in a few wards across the city, the difference was very small - in one ward, the margin of victory was only one vote.
Fed-up residents are now handing out pretend tickets to pavement parkers
It s the next step after laying down pretend double yellow lines last week
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Residents who put pretend double yellow lines across cars that were parked on pavements or on street corners as a stunt to highlight the problem in the area have followed it up with the next logical step - pretend parking tickets.
Fed-up residents make own double yellow lines in protest at pavement parking We ve been told that the double yellow lines are too faded to enforce
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People living in an area of Bristol have got so fed up of their neighbours parking on the pavement that they’ve taken to putting double yellow lines right across the vehicles.