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15 minute cities
- Thread starter Rascal
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Prestwich_Blue
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Of course it isn't serious! I was taking the piss out of the conspiracy theorists.that is a stunning comparison to make. (If it's intended seriously, which surely it can't be?)
yeh the more I thought about it the more i realised it couldn't be serious, my mistakeOf course it isn't serious! I was taking the piss out of the conspiracy theorists.
City Hobgoblin
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Improved quality of life? How dare they? I demand freedom to sit in a hot car for 3 hours a day, leaning on my horn and cursing eveyone
urban genie
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having an area where you connot use a car is not taking away freedoms, how reliant we have become on them that people have lost the ability to walk more than a mile
law74
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Either I am misunderstanding of the concept or it hasn't been thought through.
If it is a 15 minute walk or heaven forbid, cycle, from home to the pub, it can't be 15 minutes back home again unless they are mounting the houses on railtrack so at kicking out time, instead of calling a taxi to take you home, you book your house to call to the door of the snug
If it is a 15 minute walk or heaven forbid, cycle, from home to the pub, it can't be 15 minutes back home again unless they are mounting the houses on railtrack so at kicking out time, instead of calling a taxi to take you home, you book your house to call to the door of the snug
Rascal
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I am really interested in how certain groups see this as a threat and as a loss of freedom.
Of course I own a car and worked out before how much I had used it this year. I drove to the office in town once,14 mile round trip, drove to have it MOTd 2 mile round trip and went to Asda twice, 4 miles in total. So this year I have drove about 20 miles. I had one hospital appt with my Prof, did that over the phone, meetings are all Zoom or teams. I have a local shop, a bookies, a chippy and most importantly a boozer in walking distance. I have been Southampton and Spurs away on the Cheadle Blues bus, home games are train/tram.
I do not feel trapped because if i wanted to go to Blackpool tomorrow I could, although it may be a little cold on the beach in my thong. I am happy to support my local shops rather than travel to big Asda or the Trafford centre (ugh!)
As some people on here will know I am not great at walking, I am registered disabled and 15 minutes walking is about my limit to be honest, so i welcome more of what I consider Localism. It is a chance to imbue that sense of civic local pride in ones community that I feel we lost in the age of the car. Since lockdown I think our little street has grown closer, I have borrowed the proverbial cup of sugar from neighbours, the lad two doors down puts my bins out, I share my jellies with him. I look after my neighbours cat, the girl across the road texts and asks if I want some dinner. I know my neighbours again, when at one point we didn't even say hello. The girl behind the counter in my local shop knows my name, the lad knows I support City, the mindless drudgery of the big supermarket check out till doesn't exist there as we chat like we are friends and have the craic.
I wonder if it is this sense of working class communities showing greater solidarity that confuses the individualism espoused by the Libertarian right.
Of course I own a car and worked out before how much I had used it this year. I drove to the office in town once,14 mile round trip, drove to have it MOTd 2 mile round trip and went to Asda twice, 4 miles in total. So this year I have drove about 20 miles. I had one hospital appt with my Prof, did that over the phone, meetings are all Zoom or teams. I have a local shop, a bookies, a chippy and most importantly a boozer in walking distance. I have been Southampton and Spurs away on the Cheadle Blues bus, home games are train/tram.
I do not feel trapped because if i wanted to go to Blackpool tomorrow I could, although it may be a little cold on the beach in my thong. I am happy to support my local shops rather than travel to big Asda or the Trafford centre (ugh!)
As some people on here will know I am not great at walking, I am registered disabled and 15 minutes walking is about my limit to be honest, so i welcome more of what I consider Localism. It is a chance to imbue that sense of civic local pride in ones community that I feel we lost in the age of the car. Since lockdown I think our little street has grown closer, I have borrowed the proverbial cup of sugar from neighbours, the lad two doors down puts my bins out, I share my jellies with him. I look after my neighbours cat, the girl across the road texts and asks if I want some dinner. I know my neighbours again, when at one point we didn't even say hello. The girl behind the counter in my local shop knows my name, the lad knows I support City, the mindless drudgery of the big supermarket check out till doesn't exist there as we chat like we are friends and have the craic.
I wonder if it is this sense of working class communities showing greater solidarity that confuses the individualism espoused by the Libertarian right.
idahoblues
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Exactly, it's a depredation hunt. A bunch of white tail ( non native) just keep eating a friend's hay. Fish and Game have issued him five tags, lucky for me, best game meat out there imoIs that not out of season, or does that not matter if it’s for control purposes?
idahoblues
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More like a four hour one :)You have a 15 minute wilderness then. Brilliant.
Gabriel
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Fill your freezer. No baiting?Exactly, it's a depredation hunt. A bunch of white tail ( non native) just keep eating a friend's hay. Fish and Game have issued him five tags, lucky for me, best game meat out there imo