
Coming your way if you live in the City of Oxford and the council has its way is the latest authoritarian brainchild of kill joy city planners – the “15 minute city”.
The 15-minute city is a place where you can find all the shops and services you need within a 15 minute walk. Like all really bad ideas this has sprung from the twisted mind of a French academic and its the latest thing in urban planning. The idea is that cities will no longer grow as a result of the choices of citizens but as complex systems to be managed with “smart” technology. And a big part of this will be controls and limits imposed on residents with each resident being restricted to a 15 minute zone.
Oxford residents would need a permit to work elsewhere in the city and will limit the number of times they can drive across the boundary of their allocated 15-minute zone. If you don’t comply, the city’s automatic number-plate recognition systems will fine you £70.00. Kerching !
Councillor Duncan Enright says this is about “those essential needs, the bottle of milk, pharmacy, GP, schools which you need to have” and that it is all part of the council’s plans for net zero. So you’ll need a permit to visit your mum a few streets away and can only do this twice a week, all in the name of net zero and reducing urban congestion.
The Frog academic behind this idea has explained that were it not for the Covid lockdownsI the conditions for deploying the 15-minute city concept would have been very hard to instigate. Another baleful effect of covid.
This is an astonishing assault on human freedom and really frightening. These cunts believe it is a terrible thing for people to enjoy the freedom of affordable private transport and would rather jail you in 15 minute zones than risk you polluting the planet and being free. And despite the forced shift to electric vehicles these cunts still want to ban the car.
How can this be making life better? It’s like the worst excesses of Communist China. It’s like 1984 on steroids.
Canterbury City Council want to introduce it as well.
Cunts.
Nominated by: MMCM
(Presumably councillors will also have to abide by their own draconian rules? – Day Admin)



