Talk:Portway, Bristol

Section removed
I removed the following, which reads like a cut-and-paste from a civil engineering report:


 * In 1974 City of Bristol and DTp were advised by the Civil Engineering consultants appointed that the rock wall so favoured by climbers at the car park green recess was impracticable to save and although Bristol Council members and engineers were concerned over services in the Portway road that the precipice needing taking back to relieve the rocking action that had set into the cliff face. The City refused, the prospective engineers resigned the contract as the slab was so unstable and pinning (rock bolt) would have required too great a stress load. Later some cut back had to be enforced with the Portway closed and many net units were rock bolted into the Avon Gorge face. Canopy as described herein was utilized in Austria at that date and adopted for the section below the Suspension Bridge, where the "Brunel" foundations are juxtaposed with highly cavernous solution reduced Cardoniferous Limestone mass blocks at rest (William J. Larnach & Reginald Bradshaw University of Bristol and other reports in Engineering Geology, University of Bristol, aver there is no immediate danger, but the site is less than suited to alteration of high bearing stress dependency if not monitored and for new build). It is likely if the records are read that even with pins the base nature of the riparian edge and types of rock therein do not suit support of block limestone above. The 2010 closure of Portway Bridge Valley Road is just one session in a number of engineering works, including the loss of the basement road river alluvial edge, piled and service pipes.

It could go back if somebody could translate it into English. Chris (talk) 18:07, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * And if citations are added. Jezhotwells (talk) 09:30, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

With the removal of the above inappropriately-styled paragraph this article meets the criteria for B-class as per WikiProject_UK_Roads so I have fixed the redlink and reassessed it as B-class. Baldy Bill (talk) 20:39, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Infobox
I should have spotted this sooner, but I have removed the infobox per WP:DIB as it is full of errors:


 * 1) "Existed: 2 July 1926 – present" sounds silly
 * 2) "Constructed between 1919 and 1926" duplicates this information, and both fields are duplicated in the lead anyway
 * 3) The Portway does not meet the A3029 (which is the Brunel Way Bridge) and the link is a redirect
 * 4) Most people do not know Bridge Valley Road as the "A4176 road" (no article, redirect) and it is not a particularly important junction
 * 5) "A4162 road" has no article and Sylvan Way is not a particularly important junction, certainly no more so than the junction for Shirehampton Station
 * 6) The "Location" only lists Avonmouth - doesn't it go to Bristol?
 * 7) The "Road network" section is largely irrelevant to this article
 * 8) There is no map, probably the most useful thing that an infobox like this could have had

In short, a complete faux-pas. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  09:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

If you could make a highlighter map the infobox would be OK I think, though as you say in terms of actual info it's not exactly of much value. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:16, 11 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I wrote something myself ages ago example use, but deployment on here is problematic because a) I don't know who to prod to get it installed and b) the data comes from the OpenStreetMap licence which is not compatible with CC-BY-SA 4.0 that Wikipedia uses (static images are okay, dynamic data creation isn't). Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  10:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)