With this years further development in the public transport system, do locals find partially closed roads impact their travel times?
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00:00It's nuts, it's absolutely nuts and I think it just doesn't take account of
00:05the fact that a lot of people aren't able to take public transport. I have a
00:1090 year old mother and I have to get her to appointments, I have to get a
00:15wheelchair or you know I need access to things and it's making it increasingly
00:20difficult. In fact I never learned to drive till I had children and realised
00:26what a nightmare it was trying to get on and off buses with prams and babies it's
00:30just impossible. Behind me is one of these roads that often gets very
00:35congested in the city in travel times due to taking people to and directly
00:40from town but do locals find that they wait a lot in traffic during commuting
00:45hours? Awkward to say but wherever you go you're gonna get traffic. Just in West
00:55Breon Trim they're doing all the pavements, congestion there is a
01:01nightmare. Down on Falkendale Road regularly they put in traffic lights you
01:11know temporary traffic lights causing a lot of delay and they just don't look at
01:18things that the motorists look at and think well why would they put these
01:25lights here and it's just congestion. Well I go on public transport or walk so
01:32I don't drive now so that doesn't really bother me. Nuts in fact I have a
01:38friend who told me a while back he emailed the mayor just to tell the mayor
01:43that I mean this is not true now but he'd actually managed to get the whole
01:47of Muller Road without roadworks and he thought the mayor should know because
01:51this just didn't seem to fit Bristol policy you know but yeah sure enough
01:55there were roadworks on Muller Road. No it's a nightmare.