We’re all in on the culture war now
The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂
I read that in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice lol
It’s like they just let Jeremy Clarkson write this pamphlet.
finding this clip of frankie boyle shitting on clarkson made my life qualitatively better
My friend, that’s positively milquetoast in comparison to Stewart Lee.
That was brilliant. And I loved it.
Same goes for carnists lol
What’s a carnist?
A person who is on an omnivore diet.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen that word before and had assumed it had something to do with cars (car-nist).
Truly more oppressed than g*mers 😔
Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters
Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn’t really drive, and once had to borrow someone else’s car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn’t even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn’t drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport
That is wishful thinking in the extreme
Have you seen the polls in the last two years? Or the that a majority of prominent Conservative MPs for the last ten years have already announced they won’t run next year to avoid their own little portillo moments?
They know they’re done and are holding on for either a miracle or something like this policy change to stick. Which isn’t impossible, but that there’s a good chance of him winning an election is what is wishful thinking. They’re done.
I’m just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.
Now I’m just waiting 'til starmer does some blairite lowest common denominator research, by reading some red-tops and decides to support this.
It’ll be like Tony Blair’s housing policies.
Letting people travel “how they want” he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can’t be rid of quick enough.
It’s straight out of the American conservative talking points book. Somehow, driving has been equated with freedom and not fully embracing driving over all other firms of transportation taking away individual freedom.
How is it freedom to be forced to own a car, pay for gas and maintenance, and waste your life in car traffic every single day?
It’s the dumbest talking point.
New national parking platform
…if that means what I think it means, it’s probably the worst of the lot.
Take it from an American: mandatory minimum parking will absolutely ruin your towns and cities.
More and more American cities are removing them too!
And thank goodness for that! I hope the trend continues until we have actual, livable places.
Sorry for downvote, it’s not that at all.
At the moment each carpark on the UK can use any app it likes on mobile to pay, so you end up with every place having its own. Dozens of apps on phones to pay for parking, having to remember which one is right for the one you’re in today.
The proposal is to have a single app and have different car parks sign up to it so it’s easier for people to pay.
I say proposal. It’s not a plan is it. Idea? Dream? Fantasy? I dunno how much they can do before they are forced to call an election and get kicked out.
@mondoman712
Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to “solve” traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.
Just one more lane
Do you have a good source? Not denying, just on the lockout for stuff to shove in diehard motorists’ faces that they will struggle to deny with anything coming anywhere close to resembling facts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
Adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route can in some cases reduce overall performance. That is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. The network change induces a new game structure which leads to a (multiplayer) prisoner’s dilemma. In a Nash equilibrium, drivers have no incentive to change their routes. While the system is not in a Nash equilibrium, individual drivers are able to improve their respective travel times by changing the routes they take. In the case of Braess’s paradox, drivers will continue to switch until they reach Nash equilibrium despite the reduction in overall performance.
Thanks this is more or less what I hoped for :D
I think Not Just Bikes made a video on this
also CityNerd on youtube
TIL where the name of the Unsleeping City character came from…
Except Risak is doing this now, when he knows it’s wrong - and he’s doing it for other reasons.
What a fucking idiot. Has he been living under a rock? He’s going out of his way to remake all of America’s mistakes. Absolute buffoon.
What mistakes? The ultra rich have a great life in the US. He’s just serving his own interests. But remember you’re poor because of immigrants! /s
Freedom to travel except if you’re taking the train, then you can get fucked with delays, overcrowded trains and expensive fairs. Glad to be living on this hell rock
Forcing everyone to own a car due to lack of public transport/safe cycling infrastructure fucks over motorists as well. Imagine the traffic in London if suddenly everyone that commutes by train was forced to drive in.
people wouldn’t even be able to leave their driveways
Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.
So victimised right now.
Let’s take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.
Ah yes, the freedom to be stuck in traffic jams. Now where have I heard that before…
No! They will add a lane! Can’t be stuck on another lane!
/s
houses, shops, offices, city centres. parks, they’ve been waging war on cars for since 1666.
It’s about time someone did something to put a stop to them.
for many, life would be difficult without their car
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of policies and public services could be implemented to make life not difficult for non-car users? 🤔
More freedom for people that can afford to buy a car and live in an area with ample parking. But no freedom for everyone else amirite
You’re free to travel how you like as long as you keep the fuck out of my way and breathe in my car farts
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My god what a trainwreck. I’m so sorry folks
Car wreck, trains already got too much bad pr
Right !
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I see, taking notes from their overweight neighbors across the pond, they’ve chosen the way of teh hambruger
