-
Zackly.
The big error is that the posh yoghurt knitting retired / never worked local politicians who can afford to live within walking distance of good sushi don’t know how to present ideas to people who are busy and stressed and running late and increasingly financially squeezed.
What you do is, you don’t.
You certainly don’t brand your ideas up as ‘15 minute middle class liberal elite tofu cities’ and create one big enemy for the gutter press to pick on.
You just tell a single street you’re going to shut one end to improve traffic flow and make it quieter, then you do it. It’s been done for decades without such substantial opposition.
All that said, I do feel for the people who live on busy roads who are going to experience even worse traffic and pollution while the (richer) people who live in side streets get nicer lives for free.
Plus I endorse any form of public unrest at the moment, it’s perhaps mis-targeted anger, but like the strikes it’s a tipping point because of all the other shit working folk have had to put up with for the last decade that’s made their lives worse.
Stick it to the man.
-
I used to get annoyed by these types, but now I just let them make their own bed to lay in. I’m over trying to help and educate.
-
On the Clarkson types, it feels like all the people who came out to support his farm shop for ‘supplying needed goods to local people/nearby villages’ are the same people who are ardently against this stuff now. Possibly including Jeremy Clarkson, haven’t heard much of his view, probably as he’s still in hiding after his Meghan Markle stuff and only tweeting to promote Clarkson’s Farm I think.
You are reading a single comment by @grams and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
Hefty
Ben689908
ric_a5
@grams
It’s loony antivaxxers and anti 5G types turning up to the protests who now have a new confusing enemy to add to the list.
There’s also a load of Clarkson types who can’t understand the difference between minor restrictions on driving and draconian restrictions on movement.
Both groups have made up a whole load of imaginary new rules about the 15 minute city idea - e.g. restrictions on how often you’re allowed to leave your assigned 15 minute zone. None of which have been floated by anyone serious.