Why we can't have nice cities

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories

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 pts · 2y
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FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

semele@mastodon.social · 4 pts · 2y

@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.

768@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

AngstyPony@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y

Definitely in this case, yes.