Record family bike ride and BBC paramedic feature turn attention to Bristol's streets

Bristol Cycling Campaign said its Kidical Mass Ride on 19 September drew almost 300 parents and children, the group's biggest attendance ever in Bristol [6]. The ride, starting and finishing in Queen Square, included six feeder rides from parks and neighbourhoods around the city [6]. Three days later, BBC Bristol and BBC News Somerset ran a feature on paramedics, headlined in different versions as 'There's nothing better than being a paramedic' and 'There's nothing better than saving a life' [1][2][3][4][5][7]. The piece is described as revealing the realities of crews working out of stations to help millions of people a year [1][2][3][4][5][7]. Read together, the two reports describe two ways Bristol's streets are used: by ambulance crews and by families on bikes [1][6].