Thursday, December 26, 2024

Are “15-minute cities” a plan to get rid of your car?

Posted By Peter Coyne | 2023-07-07 03:13:10

Some skeptics believe “15-minute cities”—an urban planning idea designed to reduce traffic and increase walking and cycling—will be the catalyst that will take your car away from you.

  • In April protesters held a demonstration against Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to charge people if they drove older, more polluting cars anywhere in the Greater London area.
  • Almost a third of people who took part in a recent poll by King’s College London and the BBC said it was either “definitely” or “probably” true that “15-minute city plans are a government attempt to surveil people and restrict freedoms.”

What do you think? Are “15-minute cities” no more than the start of the government taking your car away from you?

I’ll leave you with one commenter’s opinion on the matter:

2020: “Anyone claiming there will be a vaccine passport is a conspiracy theorist and their dangerous misinformation must be stopped.”

2021: “Anyone opposed to a vaccine passport is a conspiracy theorist and their dangerous misinformation must be stopped.”

2023: “Anyone claiming there will be climate lockdowns is a conspiracy theorist and their dangerous misinformation must be stopped.”