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I think there's no extra barriers at all. No closed roads, bus gates, one ways or anything else. Just cameras and you have to stick in your zone or pay the fee but you can still drive anywhere up to 100 days every year. If you want to get to the other side of the city on the other 265 days, you have to first drive out of the city to the ring road to get to the other zones fee free.
But in theory everything you need will be within 15 minutes of you so except for commuting, visiting people or picking up your Mrs, you shouldn't need to drive. Which is the point and the thing the nutjobs are all missing
PhilDAS-
Someone posted a Twitter link which has a map showing filters on main roads only. I’ll see if I can find it in a mo.
Camera on main roads would seem closest to existing bus gate infrastructure. If the suggestion is to install lots and lots of cameras to catch you driving in the wrong zone then I can kind of see where the big brother conspiracy theorists are coming from.
M_V
Sorry if I'm being stupid here but is the idea to close/install cameras (filters) on every street that crosses the line between zones or is it just the major arteries?
Are these measures really so drastically different to things that are already in place? I've noticed that driving in Glasgow city centre is already kind of on its way to being like the objectors are painting the Oxford system due to bus gates and one way systems etc. If I want to pick up Mrs M_V from work (I don't do it often but sometimes it makes sense to) then from where the m8 dumps me at Bothwell st is a 1.5mile 12min drive around the heart of city to her place of work at the east end of George street, by bike it would be 0.9miles and would take 5 min to ride directly there.
The puddle drinking protesters could even argue that the bus gates are more draconian as nobody gets a 'pass' to drive though them (ok, emergency vehicles and taxis do but you know what I mean).
Just for clarity, I don't object to the routes I have to take when driving in Glasgow, I'm just seeing parallels between what's already in place and being lived with and what's being proposed.