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Rishi Sunak’s report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular
(www.theguardian.com)
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A hilarious result given Sunak ordered the report as a way to try and sink the project.
All the common critiques given to low-traffic neighbourhoods seem to have been pretty thoroughly debunked.
He will sink it anyway. Not like Tories care about evidence-based policy anyway.
The article also mentions that there's a possibility that the report will be suppressed. This article is written based essentially on a leak of the report before it is officially published.
Suppressed or altered before publication. Although now that it’s been leaked that might be less likely. I wonder if that was a deliberate tactic.
@LibertyLizard @Zagorath Probably, and the public servants who leaked it are owed a debt of gratitude.
This part is the funniest. Just goes to show you can just get on with the work of improving things and most people won't notice or care, until the work accumulates into a more livable city.
This is the only way to improve infrastructure in the UK in general. NIMBYism here is ridiculous. Just do what's needed and ignore people.
Sunak is a cunt.
Really fucking hope they keep him till the election.
They will probably give him the boot just before and 50:50 chance of Boris coming back to rebrand the Tories post Sunak. I can seem him now cycling with his hair all over the place talking about how he's going to transform the country and how Sunak was shit but now the party is different. He's a cunt too.
Fuck sake I hate FPTP. I'm going to stop now, I only popped in to call Sunak a cunt and I'm ranting already.
Hear, hear.
Hilariously, the far right Reform party has as one of their policies a move from FPTP to a proportional system.
I outright refuse to vote for a party that doesn't try to remove FPTP I feel its evidence they care more about the party than the country.
Honestly I probably will vote reform.
I wish there was an economically left party, that tries to remove FPTP, reduce immigration and probably a couple of other right points. But it's all or nothing.
"58% of people didn't even know they live in an LTN." I am dead.
But actually that tracks. I live in a post-war housing estate which is effectively an LTN, and most of the residents had no idea until they were losing their minds about the LTN the council were installing round the corner.