Sabotage, trolling and threats as Hackney rat run row turns nasty

Maybe *somebody* could make some 'diversion' signs for 'water main works' or something similar. If they happen to be on the same roads that were being filtered it would be a coincidence, surely...   

Isnt it interesting how the motorist die hards so quickly resort to violence and intimidation?

Look at the Top Gear fiasco with viewers sending death threats all over the place for yet another recent example.

Seriously, getting motorists to ackowledge their daily violence is like working with an alcoholic who refuses to accept reality.

I would like to know the breakdown of where the supports and the opponents live.

I would bet the supporter mostly live on the streets being filtered and the opponents live further away but these streets provide a handy rat run.

The Loughborough Junction experiment was opposed by people who benefitted from the rat run, but didn't have to live with the cost of their streets being clogged with stationary traffic. Just total NIMBYism. They argued that Emergency vehicles would be held up, when this scheme would help reduce the traffic on the road the Ambulance station is on.

Interesting how these people aren't interested in actually arguing the point in a grown-up discussion, just in intimidating their opponents into silence.

I wonder if that's because "I'm f-ing lazy and I don't want to have to drive round the block" is a stupid argument and they know it...?

(Mind you, how many of us have seen motorists doing a twenty-point turn in a side street or holding up other traffic while they do a u-turn on a main road, rather than drive around the block...?).

There has just been an early termination of an interesting experimental road closures in the Loughborough Junction area. The pro-car lobby played a blindingly good hand, their endless pressure heaped upon the local councillors meant the promising scheme was cancelled 3 months early.

Those lazy, short sighted, selfish, polluting pro-car mofos are gonna fight every single step of the way. I wish you good luck, sadly in my neighbourhood the feckers out played those of us envisioning a healthier future.

So my usual cycle to and from school with my boys is back to pre-closure unreasonable danger levels. It's pathetic and sad that these folk care not for the health and well being of citizens, only a daily 3-5 minute time saving.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Almost there 

The fuckwits are getting more vocal - the writing is on the wall.

It is outrageous that criminal activity to prevent measures that will benefit the whole community, with children getting to school more easily and safely, improved air quality, health & resultant economic benefits etc etc (strewth - how many times does this have to be said!??) - and of course the ever present…ever lumbering…elephant in the room…(whisper it...in the face of 'hurricane desmond’!)....C l i m a t e  C h a n g e…., remain an ongoing obstruction to those trying to hasten what has to be the inevitable decline of fossil-fuelled, carcinogenic, rat-running traffic violence and violation of people’s environment.

There needs to be police, governmental and mayoral support for measures like those in these schemes to be rolled out across communities in London and beyond.

How is it that the trolls, shills and corporate lobbied oiks  get to exert such a hold over the public, whether it's tobacco, sugar or salt in food, lead in petrol, etc etc? - to  such an extent that campaigners face such outrageous levels of hostility and abuse? 

The mini-Hollands schemes, the E- W CS routes and the recently unveiled Tavistock improvements in Camden, have all been (and are currently) subject to vitriol, distortion, lies  and a perverse view of what constitutes an environment that most people would want to reside in or visit. 

How long is it going to take before a someone decides to take on the vested interests of the oil lobbies as they cling ever more desperately and despicably to their carcinogenic self-interest?  (Although the ‘Keep It In The Ground’ movement is one that is gaining momentum).

Where are the mayoral, TfL and government sponsored public information and eduction films, posters and flyers? The London mayoral candidates need to be on the case.

Local campaign groups have their work cut out dealing with these same issues time and again - the supreme idiocy of the LTDA (they just haven't got it have they, that less cars would mean more business for them? - even if they haven't yet converted to greener fuels). Mouthing-off with - "JUDICIAL REVIEW" at the remotest possible improvement for people walking or cycling, before giving any thought to the foulled-up mess that current levels of car-use exact on everyone.

  'Don't Let her Breathe Your Exhaust' - 'Most car journeys in  the traffic London are under two miles / is your car journey really  necessary?'  - 'I don't cycle/walk because of all the cars, vans lorries and taxis, so I go by....er….!!'