Simon Manning 🇪🇺

Every time a Low Traffic Neighbourhood is delivered, the following things happen: ☑️ Businesses that have been failing for years - check their accounts on Companies House - claim the LTN has ruined them in a matter of weeks. ☑️ Someone allegedly misses a funeral/birthday/appointment because they can’t rat run down your road. ☑️ Fake emergency service workers start calling Nick Ferrari to falsely claim the LTN is costing lives. ☑️ A video appears of a local fire crew ‘stuck’ behind an LTN filter they approved in advance. ☑️ Someone complains their child - who they squirrelled into the school in the expensive catchment before buying a cheaper house out of catchment - has been made late for school by the LTN. ☑️ Some ossified local union branch Secretary or Branch Labour Party full of bricks and mortar millionaire pensioners passes a motion claiming ‘LTNs are anti-working class’, even though working class neighbourhoods have the fewest cars but the highest levels of pollution. ☑️ The local rag starts printing unevidenced sob stories from people who claim the LTN is stopping them from delivering chest freezers once a week to their housebound nan. ☑️ There’s a petition to the local Council falsely claiming LTNs are ‘creating crime hotspots’, even though the evidence is clear that they substantially reduce crime. ☑️ The craven local MP starts distancing themselves from the LTN only to take credit for it in a few years when they realise that their constituents do not want to live on rat runs. It’s literally the same, every time.