15min cities

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.