{"id":15617,"date":"2025-06-24T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:59:10","slug":"car-park-to-be-replaced-by-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"Car park to be replaced by jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In a further perceived blow to Bristol&#8217;s allegedly long-suffering but volubly vocal motoring lobby, Bristol City Council has announced it is investigating alternative uses for two current car parks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/news-and-features\/news\/two-very-different-future-uses-two-bristol-car-parks\/\">according to Bristol247<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One of the two, near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssgreatbritain.org\/\">SS Great Britain<\/a> down the city docks and known as the Maritime Heritage Centre Car Park, is being investigated as a site for up to 150 flats. However, the fate of the other behind the Counts Louse (<em>which some insist on calling City Hall. Ed.<\/em>) is completely different; it&#8217;s due to be superseded by, er, jargon, i.e. <em> special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand<\/em>, in this instance something termed a <em>last-mile micro-consolidation hub<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thankfully a picture showing what this could look like has been provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-gb\">WSP<\/a>, the city council&#8217;s chosen gibberish partners.<\/p> \r\n\r\n<p>Yer tiz, as we say in Bristol.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15620\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/last-mile-micro-consolidation-hub-Bristol-image-WSP.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the so-called last-mile micro-consolidation hub.\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/last-mile-micro-consolidation-hub-Bristol-image-WSP.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/last-mile-micro-consolidation-hub-Bristol-image-WSP-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of WSP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>According to WSP, the gibberish &#8220;<em>will provide a sustainable solution for freight deliveries, reducing reliance on traditional vans and supporting the city\u2019s decarbonisation goals<\/em>\u201d.\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>Note how yet more jargon has to be used to explain the initial gobbledygook. If two loads of jargon are required to explain a fairly simple concept, perhaps the verbal diarrhoea merchants need to have a long sit down and a rethink. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a further perceived blow to Bristol&#8217;s allegedly long-suffering but volubly vocal motoring lobby, Bristol City Council has announced it is investigating alternative uses for two current car parks, according to Bristol247. One of the two, near the SS Great Britain down the city docks and known as the Maritime Heritage Centre Car Park, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,15],"tags":[40,36,14,16,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-dialect","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}