Vocal Voices

The government has decided that councils have to take into account the views of the local communities. Fine. if they listen, but they won't because the decisions have already been made and nothing contrary will ever be taken into account.

OK, look at the image:


What do you see? Planters to stop cars getting through? Yes. White clouds and blue skies? Yes. Houses? Yes. Err, vans and cars? Oh yes.

Would those cars belong to people who live in the LTN and how on earth did they get there?

I'll tell you.

There was a time when all those car and van owners could just roll up where those planters are, park up and go in and have a cuppa. Now they have to drive round the estate on roads they would never have dreamed of using just to find and entry into the LTN in order to get home. and the LTN still has the same number of vehicles as before. However, there is now more traffic, congestion and pollution for the poor sods in the non-LTN.

Some call it "progress". Others are not so sure.

Our ruling class wants us out of our cars and into the fairyland of walking and cycling - oh and public transport. That public transport which doesn't exist much outside London and often fails to turn up when it does exist.

So no private ownership of cars (apart from politicians and their hangers on, obviously), and anything that makes driving worse is actively being enforced.

And they call this progress.
It isn't, it's going back to the 1930's and earlier when the working man got around on a pushbike and car ownership was the for the rich.

Slightly off-topic, but being in Wales right now, with the 20mph speed limit in certain areas, it's hard to see the advantages of this for local residents - surely slower traffic = more roadside pollution?