We’re all in on the culture war now
There’s absolutely zero point in discussing this.
It’s pure
whistleblowingdogwhistle and deflection politics. And that’s it.Edit: Mixed up whistling. Tired and distracted.
What do you mean? I am sure he will put in place some shitty measures that will make traffic worse then he can blame Labour for it. They can even use their much loved “since the previous Labour government…” line. And it won’t be over a decade ago they are talking about! Yay!
Do you mean dogwhistling? Whistleblowing is something else.
Yes, my bad. Total brain melt moment.
All you have to say is “conservative”
@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.
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…
Just one more lane
Fuck this dude and his plan and his shitty fat polluting murder machines
Terrible man has terrible plan. More at eleven
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.
clarkson is just a shithead kid who’s somehow an adult. He has the views and humour of a particularly obnoxious teenager
growing up and getting older are two entirely separate processes tbh
Shout out to Frankie Boyle who decided that the important thing to pursue literally in the middle of Israel gunning down protesters with machine guns and the labour right openly sabotaging their own platform was Corbyn’s antisemitism. Frankie Boyle is a fucking coward, and I would say that to his face.
Even clarkson is smart enough to realize trains and planes make more sense for mass travel, he just likes cool and high end cars because they’re cool. He’s not out here advocating for everyone to sit in traffic in festivas all day
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).
Carbrains certainly feel that way when they are menaced by the sight of someone on a bicycle.
Truly more oppressed than g*mers 😔
Typical tory, their patron saint Thatcher said as much:
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
They targeted drivers. drivers
Wow I have not heard of a single news item about sunak that is even relatively benign. What a tool.
Nothing in there about promoting work from home, I see. Best part of the lockdowns was the empty roads. More wfh the easier commutes get
This is so obvious and dumb populism it reminds me of Trump because just like most of Trumps statements, it reads like bad satire. If this guy wouldn´t be in a position of power it would be quite funny to read … [email protected]
Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.
“We are a civilization of fossil fuel users, billions of us use electricity generated from fossil energy sources daily. We are…”
Unfortunately, this isn't far from the actual rhetoric they use.
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.
God I hope so. I really can’t imagine having to put up with another 5 years of this Tory clusterfuck. I genuinely think I would rather move abroad
VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN. And make sure your friends vote. Make sure you’ve all got voter ID - don’t get caught out by the Tories’ voter suppression tricks. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
I don’t think completely unprompted violence is often the answer, but I’d love to se this fucker mauled.
Is it unprompted?
To be honest, I could get behind fines for overrunning street works. Hell, go further: fines for any overrunning, underdelivering or overbudget public contracts. That would quickly resolve the mess that the torys have made giving out dodgy contracts to their mates.
