There's a certain mentality that says, "the traffic is awful, we can't get anywhere. And now they want us not to use our cars"
Around me, that tends to be older people mostly, retired and going nowhere at rush hour. And, it's never an access thing, they can use other transport, but just want to drive
@ronanmcd incidentally an amusing letter to the Bournemouth Echo yesterday that for the sake of brevity but the loss of nuance I will call "against the council implementing active travel measures", which ended with a fantastic challenge that if the councillors are so keen on active travel they should get rid of all the car parking spaces at the town hall and make their ways to the town hall by public transport, bike or on foot. I started out scowling and ended up cheering.
@FourT4 😂 it's the same with all these people. They are so close to understanding: there are too many cars, and then they go off into, well, the one option we can't have is less cars
@ronanmcd also, hypothetically were I employed, and the office health and safety team announced the provision of stop signs in the car park because of a near miss the other day, I would be sorely tempted to suggest they follow the safety management priority list and remove the hazard rather than try to mitigate it 😆
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