Some Bristolians have said our high streets are losing essential services!

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Across the city, footfall paints a mixed picture. In April, Park Street averaged around nine‑thousand four‑hundred pedestrians daily—down slightly from January—while Victoria Street saw just under two‑thousand late‑month walkers.

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00:00Some Bristolians have said that our high streets are losing essential services. A recent local

00:07survey of Picton Street found that nine in ten residents love its character, but half

00:13say that there's nowhere on street to saw recycling. Four in ten say that the road is

00:18too narrow and more than a third warn that disabled access is poor. They want wider pavements

00:25and designated waste areas. This isn't just about convenience. Locals say it shapes whether

00:31they walk, shop or even stay in the community. I admit I do a lot online now, yeah, definitely,

00:37yeah, yeah, because a lot of shops are closing down, you know. How do you feel about the idea

00:43that the high streets aren't doing very well these days? I think this high street does very

00:48well and I do buy a little bit online, but mostly I shop in shops.

00:54Class of City, footfall paints a mixed picture. In April, Park Street averaged around 9,400

01:02pedestrians daily, down slightly from January. Hopefully it won't disappear, you know, but

01:08I don't know, I'm not too sure really, you know. I think it will disappear, you know, sadly.

01:15While Victoria Street saw just under 2,000 among walkers. Festival boosts like the Light Festival

01:22can lift numbers by 25% to 75%. But outside event weeks, many high streets struggle to attract

01:31consistent visitors. Residents on Reddit echoed similar frustration. One user said that Central

01:37Bristol lacks basic amenities with no laundrettes and no local hardware stores since the Wilco

01:44closed, forcing people to travel miles just to do laundry or pick up groceries. That's

01:49daily life we're talking about. Necessities, not just luxuries. Yeah, some of those services

01:55keep disappearing. It concerns everybody because you walk along a parade of shops like this and

02:03Henleaves is quite good. But when you're walking along other areas and you see every other shop

02:13empty, it's totally depressing. But we're all to blame. Because if you're buying stuff online, that's

02:22the end result. So we're all to blame. Yeah, I think it's sad. Yeah, yeah, it's sad.

02:30More clothes shops and shoe shops. They'll bring back all of us, shall I say, and the

02:37clothes and things, they're sadly missed, you know. Yeah, yeah. They're probably in a bit

02:42of a sorry state, to be honest. It's quite hard to buy things. And I'm going to sound really

02:46old fashioned because I know young people love online. But I prefer to just sort of feel

02:51the texture, see the quality of it and try it on there and then. So I don't think they're

02:56going to look great. It's down to us, really.

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