A handful of local women laid down in the road to stop one bus gate
A massive council operation to finish the last remaining parts of the controversial East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood took place overnight and succeeded in installing road blockages and bus gates - almost.
The council, its contractors ETM and Avon and Somerset Police descended on Barton Hill at 3am this morning, Thursday, March 13, in a co-ordinated operation to install planters, bus gate signs and paint the roads.
A small group of residents were alerted and began trying to stop them from around 4.30am, but with a huge police operation, and a co-ordinated programme to work at multiple locations at the same time, the contractors ETM worked almost unhindered for the first time in Barton Hill. Previous efforts to install the traffic blockers have met with mass protests.
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