Bristol City Council Avis 

I very rarely go or need to go into the city centre. But unfortunately today was one of those days. But I was absolutely shocked at the amount of empty shops where businesses had closed down. Yet there is new building work going on everywhere. I find it really disturbing that there has been peoples livelihoods ruined and yet there is money being wasted on new building work. The council clearly have there priorities wrong here, would it not be better to support the existing community and companies than invest in new, particularly considering the 18 months that we have all encountered.

Their bus gate layout in the city is designed to confuse and just generate income. We know what a bus lane should look like and this isn't it. They are keen to bill your number plate when ever possible

My daughter left her car unattended for 5 minutes to meet me off the train and she got a ticket RIDICULOUS we were back to the car as you were putting the ticket on
Awful

This Council, supposedly Labour run, is actually a complete farce. It is a comedy act without any humour. Why? It's hard to know where to start!

Rivers of money flow under this thing, and despite most coming from ordinary working people they are diverting it in a manner that would be admired by the lowest moral tier of Mafia. Examples:-
1. The top executives and managers on six figure salaries, whilst other staff are sacked or threatened with redundancy.
2. They continuously fork out money to the private sector. Investment banks, well-funded organisations, property outfits. No prizes for guessing how these pay their 'top' employees.
3. They don't listen. They resent democracy so much that they closed the neighbourhood partnerships and short-circuited means to properly challenge planning decisions.

So actually what this Council resembles is a reverse robin hood. The money is literally extorted from the poor and middle classes (who face JAIL if they don't pay the Council Tax / Poll Tax), then palmed off to the rich (in ways noted above).

To be fair they are not unique from other British councils in how they act but that's no excuse. Another thing: their planning department is ripe for an undercover journalist. The practices there are abominable. Put it this way: a few pockets are getting very heavy, courtesy of council tax payers.