TRESAcic brings together residents in Totterdown with the aim of improving
and protecting our local environment and to promote a vibrant cultural life.
If you live in this wonderful part of Bristol called Totterdown, then this is your website as well. Let us know about your events, issues and local stories. Get involved with our campaigns - we can only help Totterdown with your action!
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Traffic Plans for Bath and Wells Road
There are now draft proposals to change the managment of traffic on the Bath and Wells Road, including the moving of our local Bath Road bus stop to Totterdown Bridge, reducing access for Totterdown residents. There will be extended bus lanes, CCTV cameras to monitor and enforce road use, a new cycle lane and longer raised middle reservation with turning 'haven' which will allow cyclists to to effectively u-turn and cross over the busy Bath Road but not cars which the proposals say is too dangerous - good luck to all you cyclists then... The proposal also closes the right-hand turn into Totterdown bridge effectively locking all inbound traffic in one direction for a mile and half. Any traffic missing the turning at Bishopston will be forced into the crowded Three Lamps junction through to the Bath Bridge/Temple Meads area before they can turn back. Our city planners think this is a good idea but perhaps they don't live here. At the moment heavy congestion means cars short-cut through the residential streets via Angers Road, surely this could make things worse for Totterdown residents.
TRESAcic has already made it clear during the consultation that moving the bus stop is unfair to Totterdown residents, especially the elderly in our community, but we have largely been ignored. We will be discussing this at our next meeting and monitoring the situation closely. Click on the map for a pdf download of the proposals. (931kb)
If you're between 13 and 19 and you think you might be the next Banksy then get involved in the Teenage Art Project.
You are invited to take part in our FREE Saturday afternoon art workshops, taking place throughout the autumn and winter.
The aim is to create some great art which will be displayed in our very own gallery at Totterdown’s Front Room Art Trail in November.
The last meeting was our Christmas special on Saturday 19th December 2009 at the all new Oxford Pub. For more information about the project you can get in touch by emailing totterart@hotmail.co.uk.
Let out your artistic side through photography, big drawing, big collages, collograph, easy print, tiles and cuts.
Parts of our ward are to be included in one of the two 20mph pilot schemes aimed at encouraging more people to walk and cycle. Local Councillors Alf Havvock and Mark Bailey did lobby council officers and the Executive Member for Transport, Jon Rogers, and welcome the council's decision to include part of our area in the trials.
The schemes will operate in the Inner East Bristol area, that is: Eastville; Easton; Ashley; Lawrence Hill and St George West wards and Inner South Bristol, that is Bedminster; Lawrence Hill; Southville and Windmill Hill.
The primary aim of these pilot zones is to make walking and cycling in these communities safer and more attractive to more people. Reducing the speed limit to 20mph should also help to reduce the number of road accidents, which is another reason for promoting these schemes.
The Council will be monitoring the success of the two pilot areas and listening to comments from local residents and businesses as well as those who regularly pass through these areas before the council look at whether they could be extended to other parts of the City. For more information please go to www.bristol.gov.uk/20mph
Windmill Hill City Farm needs your help.
One of our neighbours, the Windmill Hill City Farm, is in trouble. The farm which has been around for 33 years needs to raise £50,000 by the end of the year. One of Bristol's oldest city farms, Windmill Hill is a registered charity, so there is no charge for entry, but every donation helps to keep the farm operating as a free community facility for the enjoyment of the public. They need your support to continue. You can donate via their website here... or you can support them by taking a WEA course in Photography, Photoshop, Art, Stained glass, Organic gardening or Jewellery work. A word document of their course information is available here... (426kb). Many of us have grown up with, and enjoyed the Windmill Hill City Farm, it provides a unique attraction and learning experience to old and young alike. TRESAcic wish them well.
Treasurer Needed!
TRESA is looking for a new treasurer. Could this be you?
You would join TRESA's other nine directors in helping to improve all things environmental and social in Totterdown by keeping an eye on our money and making sure everything is properly accounted for. The current post holder has got things pretty ship shape so we're looking for someone who can take this on and keep things ticking over. You will get lots of support from everyone else on the committee, too! Contact us....
Here's a new idea. A community project to share our garden spaces.
If you have a garden you don't use, don't have time to keep tidy or would just like to share with others then this could be for you.
The project aims to link up like-minded people to maximise the use of our garden spaces and share the benefits of plants, vegetables or just recreational use.
You can contact the organisers by phone on 07770 391521 or via email (click here)...
The website is at http://gardensharebristol.blogspot.com
St Peter's Hospice Petition
Some of you may have heard about moves to close St Peter's Hospice in Knowle, if you would like to sign a petition against this please click here...
Latest Newsletter Autumn 09
The latest issue of 'Talk of Totterdown' is available in pdf format here...