Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
Introduced to protect people's health, following evidence of increases in asthma and other respiratory problems. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ult...y-we-have-ulez. Basically the same motivation as banning smoking in public buildings, which I also support; and nothing to do with climate change.


I don't know about you, but the idea of getting all my daily needs within 15 minutes' travel time on foot or by bicycle, without having to worry about rat-running traffic, seems rather attractive.


I'm with you on this one: EV's definitely aren't the answer to climate change. The correct answer is reducing the need to travel by any means more powerful than an e-bike; for example by creating more 15-minute neighbourhoods.



Looks like they have only gone for half-measures in Blackburn, rather than going the whole hog as in many Dutch cities; there, they have made it virtually impossible to drive from A to B within the cities, not by disrepair, but by road closures that only allow cycles and buses through. Result: peaceful, safe streets, with shops doing good business because everyone is going slowly enough to look into shop windows.
Introduced as climate change measures, claiming knock-on effects for people's health.

Strangely though, it's OK if you pay, so looks more of a revenue earner. If us with ICE vehicles pay we can produce as many asthma inducing particles as we like.

on the 15 minutes, cart before horse.

Provide the facilities.
https://www.barratthomes.co.uk/new-h...-bernets-nook/
WE have 600 new houses, Section 106 money stolen by the LA to be spent elsewhere in the town. No community facilities, no footpath for families to get their kids across Broken Stone Rd (which has no footpaths) and through the Gib Lane Masterplan Development of around 1000 homes.
School land was earmarked on planning permsission in 2014, but no school, so primary kids are being driven to options further away and older kids are being bussed out of BwD to Preston, South Ribble, Bolton and Ribble Valley Schools.

I could go on, but you get my point.

You do not kick off 15 minute neighborhoods by restricting the publics ability to move around an area when there are no options within that area, not even a corner shop.

What Blackburn have done is taken grants to provide cycle lanes and bus lanes. It's a real botch job to access the funding with come sections of bike lane less than 10 metres in length, but they count towards the total.
But when the main A roads are single lane, with Victorian terraces lining them, the options to widen and add bus and cycle lanes are clearly limited, and efforts to do so sub-optimal.