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Original guardian article is
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories
So frustrating to see this, and the same has followed here in NZ.
Particularly frustrating when it could and should have been addressed head on: The pandemic has shown we can change how we live work and move, and in a constrained fiscal environment the cheapest way to meet health, environmental and transport goals is to allow those who can cycle and walk stop clogging up roads.
But of course the car is a virtue signal of its own.
@pandanus @ajsadauskas @australia I misread and first thought they meant fly up drive around and while I to my shame haven’t got to FNQ I thought, doing the reef one and and the rainforest the next would not do either justice.
Then I re-read and well, yikes you would not want to do that to yourself (or the other road users for that matter).
Folks do the same to NZ, long and thin is not small, for what it is worth. Our roads don’t forgive that most sadly.