Comment on "New long-term plan" to "put the brakes on anti-car measures:" Sunak vows to stop 20mph zones and review LTNs

hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sadly, he’s probably right.

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  • Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • soycapitan451@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was Boris who introduced the idea of ULEZ and the Tory Party who endorsed it. It was their policy to begin with!

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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…

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  • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well when you put it like that 😂

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because the automobile and oil industries have plenty of political influence, and they are very afraid of a less car centric future. They will lobby, astroturf, and otherwise manipulate as much as possible.

  Like the sudden appearance of outrage over “15 minute cities” amongst the conspiracy brigade. Urban planning theories don’t attract much interest from the public usually, but will if spun in to the right narrative and whispered in the right ears.

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not to mention that 15 minute cities are pretty great!

    Because of the way the one way systems are here, anything inside a 15 minute walk is already faster to walk to than drive to, and it works well.

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• snacks@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  when all you have is a hammer everythings a nail #torymanifesto2024

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because political necromancy has become the order of the day

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• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’d think tackling air pollution would have cross party consensus but nothing is off limits to populists

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