@Cousin_Isobel@Biff@GrumpyOldNurse@HebrideanHecate@LaylaAlexandrovna We have seen this time and time again in politics. People come second to the ideology, to the party line. If their party has been captured as indeed they have and so much of the mainstream has... they will follow the funding and lobbying. Right now that leads to social justice, to dividing on identity politics lines. By people deluded into thinking that they are doing the right thing by forcing change onto the rest of us, that they are the saviours that must make us change.
@Biff@Cousin_Isobel@GrumpyOldNurse@HebrideanHecate@LaylaAlexandrovna As long as this isn't their own children and they aren't personally impacted, then they are indeed willing to sacrifice everyone else's girls. Lest they be seen as a bad word or ousted from their comfy position. Although I wouldn't put it past them to not be paying attention to what happens to their own children nor to believe them if they do speak up.
@animeirl@coolboymew@thatbrickster Every second counts for emergency services. If they don't know where the bollards are or a satnav doesn't, that costs them in time. It also means they have to take a longer route around which costs in time again. Interestingly, they put this system in place when the roads weren't exactly designed for it, and if you have a city where it is a one-way system then that takes time to figure out where to get to and means taking longer.
I think these two things are different because the bollards aren't coming down. I don't know quite how they plan to enforce the car passes, probably with cameras though. So you are limited in how many trips you can take in a car and which streets you can use given a bollard.
@animeirl@coolboymew@thatbrickster Yes, I'm sure that emergency services which need to get to the hospital can indeed go down a different street once they've figured out that they can't go down this one so have to back up and take a longer route in order to save their patient. Very nice of them. Or how about if there is a fire and they need to get to the other side? The fire will be burning for longer. Or the police come across this and it takes them even longer. These were meant to be temporary.
@animeirl@coolboymew@thatbrickster Here is proof that they set up bollards and the response to them. This may be a part of the low traffic neighbourhood scheme which is a part of this 15 minute city concept. They just do the worst ideas.
@animeirl@coolboymew@thatbrickster It's not about increasing development but restricting car use. So you will have to go the long way around if you have used up about 100 passes to get to places. There were definitely roads blocked and it has been a problem for emergency services. If you live in a poor area without proper development, gl.
@Zerglingman And I thought that things were bad here. Actually, I don't know if they are using bots yet but I suspect that they are for some things. Like when going through CV's. Don't need a human for that when you can pass key words through a machine instead.