Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Must be a different Bristol from the one I lived in 10 years ago, the city centre was a quite depressing part of the city, broadmead reminded me of Newport and it all seemed a bit odd, then there was park street which is a,right....
I've never liked the layout of Bristol City Centre. As you say, it reminds me of Newport with hills everywhere and doesn't seem to have a 'centre' as such. Just a myriad of different streets shooting off everywhere with main roads cutting it all up.

Give me a pedestrianised, flat, square mile like Caerdydd's any day.

Agree with the point above however, about Queen Street lowering it's rates and attracting all the farmers' shops / Welsh made produce etc. Leave the big name, high end stuff to SD2 imho. Everything has its place, although this might then affect the popular Welsh themed independent shops of the stunning arcades?