Dear Member,
If you have an entry for the BIAMF on 22nd April please read below. If you don’t have an entry please ignore!
This year we will be using only TWO entrances. Broad Street, which leads to Bell lane and Small Street is blocked by builders equipment and so we can use only the St Stephens Street and St Nicholas Street entrances. Furthermore, the roads in the centre of Bristol have been dug up for re-development and you may well find your normal route is no longer viable. Please see the following:
NOTE – Many Bristol streets now have a 20 MPH limit!! Also watch out for the average speed cameras on the M32 - 60mph reducing to 40mph.
Set your sat nav as follows but be aware that many of the streets have changed recently and the sat nav might not have caught up with the changes.
Green passes and two-wheelers – St Stephens Street entrance BS1 1JX
Yellow, Blue & Pink passes St Nicholas Street BS11UE
Be sure to have your coloured pass visible at your windscreen!
To approach from the M4 / M32 into the centre of Bristol:
When you get to the junction at Cabot Circus, keep LEFT and turn left:
Then keep going ahead
Until you approach a large roundabout – get into the right hand lane
Turn right - take the third exit (City Centre & Broadmead)
Take this exit and head towards Bristol Bridge (NOTE 20MPH!!)
For St Stephens Street (GREEN passes & two wheelers only) turn LEFT proceed along Baldwin Street and:
Turn right, into St Stephens Street (above).
For St NICHOLAS STREET - Yellow, Blue & Pink passes take the MIDDLE lane across Bristol Bridge, go past Baldwin Street
and TURN LEFT into St Nicholas Street. IGNORE the NO ENTRY SIGNS – We have a street closure order and therefore can reverse the flow. There will be marshals there to welcome you.
If you are approaching from Bath on A4 or Wells on A37, proceed past Temple Meads railway station on your right and get in the MIDDLE LANE. Bear left and then turn RIGHT (keep in the left lane),
Turn LEFT at the large roundabout and head towards Bristol Bridge (NOTE 20MPH!!)
See above for what to do when you get to Bristol Bridge.
If you fail to turn left at Cabot Circus you will not be able to turn left into Baldwin Street. So if you are on the route into ‘The Centre’ or if you are coming down Park Street or along Coronation Road (A370) read on:
From M32, you must go through the centre in the RIGHT hand lane and bear right up College Green past the Marriott hotel on the left
and as you go by the City Hall on the left TURN RIGHT into UNITY STREET
And then turn RIGHT into Denmark Street:
Exiting Denmark Street TURN LEFT back onto the Centre and get in the RIGHT hand lane and at the lights turn RIGHT into Baldwin Street:
As you proceed, St Stephens Street will appear on the left and to get to St Nicholas Street continue to the next set of traffic lights in the LEFT lane, turn left and immediately left again. There will be marshals there to welcome you.
Modest prizes will be awarded to our choice of vehicles at a short ceremony in Marsh Street (in the Bike Zone – at the Riders stand) at 3pm – if you find a rosette on your vehicle please be there to receive your prize. The festival will close at 3.30pm. Two wheelers from the bike zone and cars in the Green Zone (St Stephens Street) will exit through St Nicholas Street. Cars and scooters in Corn Street and Small Street will exit through Small Street. NOTE you CANNOT exit out through St Stephens Street any more.
Best regards,
Paul Hanmore