{"id":416250,"date":"2026-02-09T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416250\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:54:14","slug":"bristol-park-street-car-traffic-ban-will-not-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416250\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Park Street car traffic ban will not go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But councillor Tom Renhard, leader of Bristol Labour, claimed the scheme would have led to worse air pollution outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, as traffic would not just &#8220;evaporate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kalaco said air pollution levels near the BRI would have experienced a &#8220;slight increase&#8221; under the plans, but would remain below the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a313m plan, which had not been backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgk21yy23do\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West of England Mayor Helen Godwin<\/a>, would have been part-funded by \u00a38m from CAZ fines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Renhard said the fine money would be better spent on additional supported bus services, installing lighting on dark footpaths and active travel routes, cleaning drains and replacing bus stops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But councillor Tom Renhard, leader of Bristol Labour, claimed the scheme would have led to worse air pollution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}