Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, or LTNs, reduce traffic in residential streets, and improve access for pedestrians and cyclists with dedicated lanes, wider pavements and planters blocking off vehicle access.
Speed limits of 20mph are designed to reduce the severity of injuries suffered in accidents.
How the fuck has this become a left/right culture war issue?
How did selling a shackle to the common people that also isolates them from each other and helps keep society stratified, therefore breaking social cohesion, became a left/right issue? I can’t quite put my finger on it…
You’d think tackling air pollution would have cross party consensus but nothing is off limits to populists
They won a by-election by opposing the ULEZ expansion, so now he thinks that reversing any policy which might upset car drivers is a general election winning policy.
I prefer to say they ‘barely clung onto a previously pretty safe seat whilst using a wedge issue as a bludgeon to beat the opposition’.
If it was a Tory mayor pushing it they’d have got absolutely fucking obliterated.
It was Boris who introduced the idea of ULEZ and the Tory Party who endorsed it. It was their policy to begin with!
when all you have is a hammer everythings a nail #torymanifesto2024
What a fucking stupid plan.
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No, just completely devoid of morals. He’s positioning himself to have something to battle labour with. Conservative voters are very easily triggered by suggesting someone might be taking something from them. Doesn’t matter how stupid it is, conservatives are incredibly easily led, selfish idiots.
Nah, he’s totally found the way to fill his bank account with shiny, shiny bribes.
Sunak saying he has long term plans for anything is like the milk saying it has long term plans for the fridge.
How the hell do you intend to reach net-zero with these clowns in charge?
We won’t. We’re gonna continue to apathetically march towards a world-ending climate crisis, and when it’s finally producing societal collapse and the average person’s life is being disrupted in a practical way beyond climate protestors, and it’s clear we strolled past the point of no return years ago, the millionaires and billionaires will all retreat into their private safe havens and shield themselves from the rest of the world and all consequences, proclaiming “we tried guys, we really tried, but the insert scapegoat blocked us at every turn and ruined it for everyone,” while we proceed to tear eachother apart.
I don’t think we will with anyone.
We need huge co2 taxes and taxes on imports too. That’s just the start.
Here in Oxford at least, LTNs have been poorly planned and while side streets aren’t being used to go from one main street to the other, it has resulted in all the traffic being pushed effectively into two main roads, in one area onto one. What this has done is create absolute gridlock traffic at least twice a day, concentrating all of the pollution and forcing LTN residents to drive further than before just to get out of their respective streets. It’s absolutely bonkers. Sunak like the rest of these Tory idiots can go disappear in a hole for all I care but I would definitely welcome a reversal of this LTN nonsense.
That being said, reverting traffic-calming measures just for the sake of being a reactionary Tory and opposing “the green agenda” or whatever they’re calling it is still profoundly stupid
I mean, those effects are part of the intent. Make traveling by car worse while making other methods better, encouraging more use of the later.
Sounds like those busy corridors could use some trains and bike lanes
Absolutely. It’s still stupid because this also means that travelling by bus is basically impossible during peak traffic (i.e., when people have to go to work and would maybe consider taking the bus there). That only leaves going by bike, which is not pleasant in bad weather and as soon as you have to leave the city, you need a car
