TAKE a deep breath, step back and look at the plans for the new road layout through the Centre. There is something refreshingly sensible about them. They really do seem to have been drawn up by people who know what it is like to navigate their way around the bizarre figure-of-eight arrangement that is there at present.
Whether you are driving into the city or out every way is made more straight forward.
And if you are in any doubt just run through the current journey you have to make.
Of course it is easy to judge a plan on paper but the omens are good.
It also makes sense to reestablish this area as a transport hub as it was during the days of trams, something which led to it being called the Centre.
But there is a sting in the tail. The revamped layout is only the consequence of the bendy-bus rapid transit network going ahead.
Whether that will deliver any benefits at all to public transport in Bristol remains to be seen.
If we are lumbered with diesel powered buses rather than electric trams then we can at least enjoy some of the benefits.
And one of those will be having a traffic-free plaza around Bristol's cenotaph for the first time in living memory.
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