…and 1.6 tons covers vehicles quite a way under full wankpanzer size as well. My (admittedly lardy) hatchback weighs 1,421kg when full of fuel and other fluids.
It’s an interesting thing though because, in the rush to look at revising VED to cover the transition between IC and EVs, everyone seems to be fixating on road pricing where kerb weight; a known quantity on every new car, gives a pretty solid gradient too. Sure, technically someone in a Mclaren Senna gets undercharged but they’re not exactly thick on the ground. For the most part, larger and more expensive vehicles weigh more. Wouldn’t need a 12 quadrillion pound government IT project either.
I suspect he’s properly fewmin’ right now, and providing an actual answer to his question will make me deeply unpopular, but the barrage of “muh car! muh car!” is getting really tedious.
I don’t know how your LTNs work, but most of them here are physical obstructions (usually planters that are regularly vandalised) across junctions on rat-runs. You can approach from either side but you can’t go through.
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There is one I can think of that is camera-enforced, but that’s a straight ban on private vehicles during the school run, with a hefty fine if you don’t notice the signs.
As for this guy, while he is talking specifically about this area, he is a landlord and actually lives considerably further south than here. Perhaps he is simply personally invested in cars and freedumb.
The nearest one to here is probably in Exeter which I believe has involved physical restrictions and some road closures. But I haven’t needed to go there & use it yet.
I think it has provoked some local resistance but I’m not sure how serious it’s been.
We go to Bristol but I haven’t noticed any physical restrictions and neither car gets charged for going through the centre.
Presumably traffic in your part of London is reduced and there’s better air quality? Certainly I was impressed by the improvements in both when I was last up in London in December
Apparently so. The University of Westminster study last year reckoned that LTNs reduce, rather than displace, traffic and there was a report a couple of weeks ago that said that roadside pollutants were falling faster in London than anywhere else in the country, although they’ve probably started from quite a high altitude
There is vocal opposition here to LTNs, ULEZ, controlled parking zones (coming into my area soon), basically anything that threatens the car hegemony.
However I think it is a vocal minority.
Susan Hall is trying to make an anti-ULEZ stance a central pillar of her mayoral campaign, so I guess we’ll see come May 6th/7th. Certainly the local Tories tried to turn council elections into a ULEZ referendum two years ago and they got an absolute kicking.
Have you asked for an explanation as to why they are?
You can absolutely have racist town planning for sure, it’s a large part of what Jim Crow Laws did, but I’m getting an inkling this guy won’t be able to explain it.
He has a little document full of unevidenced claims, and he’s printed it to PDF so that makes it true.
His initial objection to the nearest LTN was that it would slow him up driving to collect his order from Gourmet Burger Kitchen, and that’s pretty racist
Seriously, despite being tempting there’s absolutely no point in engaging with him.
Amazing, yet not surprising. Some years ago, I was called a racist for asking someone to keep the gangway clear.