take our streets back and block the roads

[kingkev]

WE pay through our road fund licence for the streets we use, so we should have a 'Take Our streets back@ day where we bring traffic in southwark to a halt, they have put all the traffic onto the main roads where the smog has gotton to record levels, and all the side streets that have tree which help remove smog are doing nothing.

the was no consultation with local people, even people who live in the streets that have been closed off are complaining, a 20 second drive to get home is now sometimes a 15 minute crawl and all the extra pollution is going in the air by where all out young mothers and their babies go shopping, where our elderly people go shopping.

Take the streets back, we pay for it!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Road fund licence?

A parody I assume.

[teddyboy23]

I can supply the glue

[Angelina]

the idea that people drive to get somewhere 20 seconds away in the first place really suggests the cause of the problem here.

[KidKruger]

In that case I?ll supply a plastic bag.

Meet you in the alley.

[Sue]

Angelina Wrote:

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> the idea that people drive to get somewhere 20

> seconds away in the first place really suggests

> the cause of the problem here.

That must surely have been a joke?

Surely?

[malumbu]

Oh, really disappointed, I thought that was about reclaiming the streets for the masses as was gone twenty years ago, not for entitled motorists, particularly those who don't know that both Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty are general taxation. It's like a campaign for those who have paid death duty to reclaim the morgues.

I wont be joining you and blocking streets will not get you general support.

https://griid.org/2012/05/16/this-day-in-resistance-history-1998-reclaim-the-streets-global-day-of-action/

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

OP wants to get a whole bunch of motorists together to bring traffic to a halt and take contol of the streets. Isn't that already happening twice a day and called "rush hour"?

[teddyboy23]

Kidkruger 👍

[Spartacus]

I see Uber are going to do just this by hiring 20,000 extra drivers in London (hence the 10% fare rise today)

No need to glue ourselves to the streets as you won't find a spare piece of tarmac to do it on 😱😂

[Angelina]

@Sue

No, not joking.

[TheCat]

It's okay. Once we all have electric cars powered by sustainable energy, they'll be sure to open up all the streets again, as they'll be no carbon or air quality issues...

So just be patient for the next 20 years...

[Angelina]

Isn?t there a correlation between volume of cars and traffic jams and air pollution?

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

It'll be a perfectly silent, emission free column of cars going nowhere...

It's not just tailpipe emissions that's our problem: it's congestion, brake and tyre dust, heat Islands and road deaths too.

[Sue]

Angelina Wrote:

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> @Sue

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> No, not joking.

I was referring to kingkev's reference to a 20 second drive to get home.

[Angelina]

:)

[Earl Aelfheah]

It's difficult to satirise the 'prioritise cars on every street' lobby. The OP is almost indistinguishable from some of the stuff posted in all seriousness over on the Rockets thread.

[pearsonville]

The OP needs to take a step back and rephrase his/her arguments

Having said that, I agree with some of the arguments as to the lack of consultation, and the inability of the council to be able to quantify the effectiveness of the measures outside of a ?very? limited area.

However, I have been out shopping in the past, and called in to shops on my way home, which were not far from my front door.

Of course these days, I could, and do, use home delivery services to some extent, but then that too would have an effect on local businesses.

Lastly, these road closures have been incredibly divisive in local communities, and have been implemented in a hugely one-sided manner.

Other than that, I wish you all a peaceful lead-up to the next lockdown..!

[malumbu]

As Rahrahrah has said Rockets has his/her own thread on the subject next door. I don't usually post if I have nothing new to say but there are half a dozen anti LTN thread on the ED part of this site.