The prime minister of the UK everyone, showing the world he is stuck in the 1960’s and that the world was a better place then, when families were strong and white… oh wait a moment l…
The Tories must be proud of what they have created.
Hopefully this will discredit pro car policies by associating them with cheap populist stunts.
That and leading Starmer to double down on pro-motorist red-meat policies to appeal to the Daily Mail-reading petrogammon he assumes the English Everyman is.
I love the phrase “petrogammon”, as I can picture exactly the sort of person it describes.
It’s just clones of Jeremy Clarkson and Ronnie Pickering as far as the eye can see.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The government is to limit measures councils can take to curb car traffic including 20mph speed restrictions and bus lanes, the Guardian understands, under plans that have alarmed travel groups and risks a row with local authorities.
In another sign Rishi Sunak hopes to gain support by prioritising the needs of motorists, other plans expected to be announced next week include limits on local authorities’ abilities to levy fines from traffic cameras and restrictions on enforcing box junction infringements.
The plans, which have not been discussed with councils, are likely to prompt concern at a further centralisation of powers and the sense that Sunak wants to make life easier for car drivers at the expense of people who use the bus, cycle or walk for travel.
It reinforces his pledge in July to crack down on what he called “anti-motorist policies” after the unexpected Conservative win in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection, which was aided by concerns about the expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez).
Announcing a wider set of driver-favouring policies at the Tory party conference could help Sunak deflect attention from political pressures generated by the continued uncertainty over whether the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 rail line will be scrapped, something he declined to clarify more than a dozen times during a round of media interviews on Thursday.
However, the prospect of limiting councils’ powers to improve the roads for not just cyclists and pedestrians but also bus passengers could provoke another controversy, especially in Manchester, where buses have been brought back under public control with the aim of massively increasing the numbers of people who use them.
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The narrowness and shit parking on most residential streets means you’d be lucky to even reach 20mph, let alone be limited to it.
And drivers needn’t worry. Councils have barely got the budget for the signs, let alone any enforcement of it.
I can see limiting highly-restrictive speed limits, as there could be a broader public interest outside of the location placing the limit in having traffic moving. Like, when traffic is moving from point A to B to C, B may be on the only route from A to C and not care how long it requires to get from A to C. But B’s restrictions still affect people at A and C.
But how does limiting traffic cameras make sense? I mean, either you have a speed limit or you don’t. I can’t see a good argument for limiting enforceability of speed limits.
