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Why we can't have nice cities (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by AngstyPony to c/ukpublictransport

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Gutted that this article did not contain the electrifying utterance by Sunak that driving at 20mph is against British standards. Plenty of other guff, though.

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[–] trantion@masto.ai 10 points 10 months ago

@AngstyPony I've lived in what could basically be called a 15 minute city since before the term was invented, and I'm pretty sure I go to the shops more than if I had to drive there. It's about a 5 minute round trip on foot, so I'll often pop round if I want just one thing *right now*

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Loss of freedom of movement was one of the concerns so their solution was to put movement behind a paywall (car ownership).

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Conspiracy mythology is often just a projection surface for represssed authoritarian ideologies, I guess.

[–] AngstyPony 3 points 10 months ago

Definitely in this case, yes.

[–] semele@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago

@FireRetardant @AngstyPony That's because what they claim to be concerned about (restriction of movement) is not what they are actually concerned about (promotion of cars). And they tie-in slogging your guts out with being able to break through that paywall.