It’s precisely what’s happening. Don’t deny it.Initially installed as Covid measures (‘taking advantage of Covid’ as Bell cynically put it), it’s become an instrument to try and control people’s lives.It’s now all about ‘active travel’, which is cycling and walking. It’s what the council always references. You yourself constantly berate car drivers (not van drivers strangely) and call for more cycle lanes, which hardly anyone dies or will use.Bell wants to nudge people out if cars, as if it’s the answer to all the world’s ills, when really it’s not. Obesity levels won’t fall. That’s only going to happen by banning certain foods, which anyone with even a passing interest in nutrition knows. Cycling half a mile won’t change that if the cyclist goes and eats a Big Mac later on.It has affected those less able to get around. Massively in some cases.Bell will find quite a lot of his cronies, and possibly himself, nudged our next year.
Simon Hayes ● 1070d