Guerrilla protest against low-traffic neighbourhood is latest backlash against newly-elected council

Katie Sullivan points to the ­middle of a busy junction in east Bristol where she sat for four hours in the cold last week to stop council contractors installing a bus gate. It was the third time local people had come out en masse to prevent the rollout of a “livable neighbourhood” trial backed by the Green-led city council.

“We’re furious the council is doing this to us,” says Sullivan, who lives nearby. “[The scheme] doesn’t solve the problem … the imposition on ­people’s lives is huge.”