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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Tom Wall

Monthly bin collections and road closures: furious Bristol residents turn on Greens over council cuts

Black bins and recycling boxes waiting to be collected in Bristol
Bristol may become first English council to collect black bins every four weeks. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Katie Sullivan points to the ­middle of a busy junction in east Bristol where she sat for four hours in the cold last week to stop council contractors installing a bus gate. It was the third time local people had come out en masse to prevent the rollout of a “livable neighbourhood” trial backed by the Green-led city council.

“We’re furious the council is doing this to us,” says Sullivan, who lives nearby. “[The scheme] doesn’t solve the problem … the imposition on ­people’s lives is huge.”

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