I'd sum it up as being "Good as far it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Like almost all cycle provision in UK^▸ (United Kingdom), it doesn't connect anything to anything."

If it's replaced by something simpler, with fewer steps, that should cut down the opportunities for unintelligent application. It should certainly reduce delays by reducing steps. If it's replaced by something simpler...

We need to take action before power cuts become common to limit or regulate use of diesel generators. In places with frequent cuts, like parts of Asia, every shop has one chained up on the street; very noisy, terrible air pollution.

My mum used to know a Mrs Nelson who lived in Nelson House on Nelson Street in Stroud. She was a music teacher and there was a Nelson School in Stroud at that time (closed some decades ago, I think)... but also she didn't teach there.

I've just been out to test it. It bears in some ways more similarity to the layout In The Before Times than the offside lane recently removed. Things you might want to look out for:
The entrance is divided asymmetrically, if you go left of the central wand it might be rather tight.
Possibility of lane changing cars and buses at two points.
Barriers offset immediately first lane change point, whether deliberately to prevent cars driving along it or because it's been hit (or just accidentally misplaced), I don't know.
All the road markings at the roundabout itself are worn away and surface is quite potholed.

Other oddities:
Although the cycle lane occupies an entire 'car lane', it gives cyclists significantly less width to ride in, due to the placing of the wands and barriers some way within the lines.
Together with the longer continuous bus lane, this leads me to wonder if the unspoken purpose isn't (and wasn't) so much to function as a cycle lane but to reduce non-bus road capacity. Marvin Rees did say in the summer that he was hopeful the changes introduced so far (Bristol Bridge etc) would reduce city centre traffic to remove the need for a clean air zone.
If so, it seemed to be working today, about 4pm. Very little traffic.
All the buses in front of me at the roundabout itself were in the middle lane, through some coincidence, leaving me as the only person in L1 for North Rd.

This one is almost four years old, but just look at the reporter's name.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-38770146

Mentioned here: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=11526.msg296592#msg296592

Lewins Mead layout has now been altered. Starting just after the crossing at the bottom of Christmas Steps, counting from the left it's now bus lane, cycle lane with wands on the left and solid red/white roadworks style barrier on the right, cars. One lane of each. The cycle lane ends at the crossing by the Bay Horse, the bus lane just before the Bearpit bus stop.

Set the controls for the heart of the earth, Mr Chekhov.

This incident has hit the press!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/the-driver-misled-passenger-train-4693975

TBF^▸ (To Be Fair) though that's about the same as in a diesel or petrol car. An electric car does much better, I understand. And a pedal cycle is surprisingly bad in this respect but that's presumably in part because the energy produced in respiration has to do trivial things like keep the rider's heart beating.

Yes, the driving, if I understood correctly, is done by adults but the children ? and they're teenagers really ? act as "driver's assistants" which presumably is something like an apprentice.

On the general subject of child labour, I've been reading Mary Beard's SPQR, in which she says of child labour in the Roman Empire that it was universal and not regarded as any sort of problem, in fact it would not even be recognised as a category. And she adds in parentheses that even today it's almost exclusively a Western concept.

In a forest park near Kharkiv there is a narrow gauge, but "full size", railway run by children/teenagers as platform staff, signallers, driver's assistants etc. The railway is 3.6km long with two stations, called imaginatively Park and Forest Park, and one intermediate platform. It has two trains, each with a diesel locomotive and consisting of six carriages. One of the sets of carriages was built in Poland, the other I think is of Soviet construction (with the Polish one being of similar age).

The children's railway was opened on 8 November 1940 and normally runs throughout the summer (I think from 1 April to end of September). For its 70th anniversary, a museum was opened. And the purpose of the railway, apart from being an attraction in the park, is to train and encourage interest among children in railway careers.

That's the essence of what I was able to glean from this website
https://www.pz.gov.ua/dept/100062?lid=2
using my rusty Cyrillic and knowledge of other Slavonic languages. If you run it through google translate you'll probably be able to correct some mistakes I've made!

I think the law on this applies to all vehicles, regardless of type, over a certain height, which I seem to have in mind as 3.2m. Obviously few if any vans are that tall; but neither is the bridge in Twerton.