Dear #RishiSunak, you’ve declared war on people who want to curb car use. It’s one you’ll lose.

“There is … an irony in the fact that the “pro-motorist” campaign against #LTNs, previously articulated by the #transport secretary, Mark Harper, is now being spearheaded by a #PrimeMinister whose default transport mode is a #helicopter.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/rishi-sunak-cars-prime-minister-ulez-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

May I suggest that if your bar relies on folk driving there to stay in business, it's probably in the wrong location? #ltns #ukpolitics https://news.sky.com/story/florence-pughs-father-blasts-low-traffic-neighbourhood-scheme-as-he-loses-his-bar-12930872

"Mr Sunak said: 'The vast majority of people in the country use their cars to get around and are dependent on cars.'"

So, make it easier for people to use other forms of transport, then! #LTNs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66351785

It's almost as if 'motorists' form some kind of distinct superior sub-species, and some of them definitely behave as though they think they are. #Sunak shows himself to be quite as pointless and out of touch on #LTNs, #ULEZ and anything with even the faintest whiff of greenness that might save us from the impending climate abyss. Fiddling while Rome burns has nothing on this head in the sand attitude. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66351785

"Sadiq Khan: LTNs are about 'taking back control' from Whitehall"

https://news.sky.com/story/sadiq-khan-ltns-are-about-taking-back-control-from-whitehall-12886849

#SadiqKhan #LTN #LTNs #UK #politics #motorists #motoring #cycling #walking #ActiveTravel #Cars

Hey, if you're in #Oxford #UK and don't want the East Oxford #LTNs converting into a taxi and joyrider superhighway, can you spare a minute to sign this petition? Boost for reach, please! https://www.change.org/p/do-not-dismantle-our-ltns @urbanists @bikes #LowTrafficNeighbourhood #urbanism

Astonishing: £3.3BILLION was splurged on "active transport schemes" such as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods 2016-2021

The result? Cycling & walking fates FELL. A total waste of £££ - scrap the lot of them!
RT @HowardCCox: Billions have been thrown away by @transportgovuk like confetti across UK, without it seems any due diligence to the benefits these costly pointless active travel schemes will deliver eg #LTNs @David_Churchill @TiceRichard @MartinDaubney @NAOorguk @I…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MartinDaubney/status/1666343860593623041

As the Levelling Up Bill slowly trundles to a close, an interesting question: How to revive high streets? Certainly not by forced pedestrianisation, such as imposed #LTNs, causing real problems for local shops/cafes etc...

https://youtu.be/tn-rDp2Df4U

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1660745491313840156

Unsurprising that something that attracts culture warriors is 95% opposed by people who don't live in the area affected.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23418927.oxford-ltn-petition-mainly-attracts-people-across-uk/

'Only five per cent of the responses to a petition calling for a review into the Low Traffic Neighbourhood scheme (LTNs) were from Oxford residents, data shows.'

#LTN #LTNs #Oxford #LowTrafficNeighbourhood #ActiveTravel #walking #cycling

My thoughts (& from others) on importance of defending drivers who are under cosh from anti car policies such as #LTNs. Glad grassroots campaigns such as @FreeBathStreets @Togetherdec etc are taking this on. Also, read great essay The Freedom of the Open Road by @hiltonholloway
RT @acadofideas: Public transport matters - but it shouldn't be posed as an alternative to cars. We need both. The Net Zero-inspired clampdown on private, motorised transport - from #ULEZ t…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1648391763877326848

We're told more devolution/powers to councils, empower local people. However as Bath residents explain below, imposed #LTNs are disempowering & v divisive between neighbours, as the community were never given a chance to debate pros and cons. Thanks for exposing @FreeBathStreets
RT @FreeBathStreets: Southlands in Bath is the first place in the city selected by the council to have an LTN road block. Another 48 are planned. Southlands LTN has caused division, misery…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1646117782608654337

RT @London_Cycling
Read up on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - how old they are, how they work and the latest evidence behind them #LTNs https://lcc.org.uk/campaigns/low-traffic-neighbourhoods/

@ndhapple will be more difficult here because cars are so much larger. #LTNs would suffice and allow retention of parking but size of cars requires PBLs. Going to be a battle. CB7 full board meeting about #crosstown #bikeLanes shows the quandary. There is no easy solution.

Arg, frustrating day on the other side.

Really trying to work out what a few disabled activists have against #LTNs, really trying to get their issues with them.

All I got back was aggression, that them not being able to drive anywhere they wanted to was #ableist (in fact the whole road system is), and that always had to be the shortest route, not just any route.

Not concerned at all about pollution, congestion, climate change - or the delays caused by just too many cars.

Very good speech by @Future_Cities - especially good in debunking stats & assertions about clean air used to justify low emissions zones such as #ULEZExpansion (clue, science shows air has become cleaner & less pollution in cities despite hyperbolic claims by likes of Sadiq Khan)
RT @Future_Cities: My speech at the Together Declaration - FREE OUR STREETS - #Birmingham
@alanvibe #ULEZExpansion #LTNs @Togetherdec #freedom #liberty #Protest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLvn9STkKM&feature=youtu.be

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1637219868868063233

#dialogue #cancelculture #tolerance listening to this podcast is really helping me to question my act of blocking a "friend" who had shown me kindness when I discovered that he is against #london #ulez and #LTNs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct424p?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

"Far-right activists and other extremists are attempting to hijack local issues such as low-traffic schemes by linking them to conspiracy theories... Covid-19 protesters joined thousands demonstrating against Oxford’s LTN scheme, one of the most ambitious in the country... anti-racism charity Hope Not Hate warns the issue is one that extremists are attempting to portray as the work of an elite cabal, or “New World Order”, pulling the strings of world events."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/far-right-trying-to-infiltrate-low-traffic-protests-campaigners-warn
#UKpol #LTNs

Really learnt a lot from this insightful podcast with @Future_Cities @briangr0254 @Colin_Brown_MAG & @JohnJohnStewart. Not more of same but lots of nuanced argument & new insights on seeming assaults on freedoms of drivers. Do listen to add more layers in discussing #LTNs #ULEZ
RT @Future_Cities: A fascinating discussion with @briangr0254 @Colin_Brown_MAG & @JohnJohnStewart on "Mobility in an Age of Restraint."
On #LTNs #ULEZ #cleanair & why people who oppose re…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1630496118680305665

Solidarity with colleagues working in Doncaster on LTNs, 15-minute cities, etc. knowing a local MP is an obstructionist conspiracy theorist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/15-minute-city-planning-theory-conspiracists

#LTNs #UrbanPlanning #UKPol #Doncaster #NickFletcher #ConspiracyTheory

recent #Oxford demo covered in the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/far-right-trying-to-infiltrate-low-traffic-protests-campaigners-warn #cycling #LTNs #ActiveTravel