The Transport Minister and the 15min City

[sheddy]

When the Secretary for Transport is against us what hope is there ?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/co...ence-15-minute-cities-mark-harper-conspiracy/

 

[mjr]

When the Secretary for Transport is against us what hope is there ?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/co...ence-15-minute-cities-mark-harper-conspiracy/

Since then, the highway network management guidance on supporting active travel has been withdrawn, with a note "see The Plan for Drivers" 🙁

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...04-network-management-in-response-to-covid-19

 

[a.twiddler]

He's a government minister. He needs to get his facts right, not base policy on internet conspiracy theories. Don't his researchers do fact checking? Or only when it suits him.

 

[All uphill]

Having shops, dentists and other facilities close to housing is " sinister?.

FFS.

 

[mjr]

He's a government minister. He needs to get his facts right, not base policy on internet conspiracy theories. Don't his researchers do fact checking? Or only when it suits him.

His researchers probably check facts, but he may prefer to listen to his spin doctors telling him which conspiracies could win him votes.

 

[Slick]

Since then, the highway network management guidance on supporting active travel has been withdrawn, with a note "see The Plan for Drivers" 🙁

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...04-network-management-in-response-to-covid-19

That's worse than the OP.

 

[Slick]

Having shops, dentists and other facilities close to housing is " sinister?.

FFS.

It does smack of a drowning man clutching at straws.

 

[Drago]

Don't his researchers do fact checking? Or only when it suits him.

Only when it suits him, because he's a government minister!

 

[Drago]

Remember Failing Grayling, a previous transport secretary? So thick he reckoned cyclists weren't classed as road users, and tried to kill one of our number with a car door. Well, he's not running again at the next election.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Remember Failing Grayling, a previous transport secretary? So thick he reckoned cyclists weren't classed as road users, and tried to kill one of our number with a car door. Well, he's not running again at the next election.

Leaving before the rush??

Or has he got an offer of a highly paid job due to his expertise and experience???
(The exact meaning of "expertise" in the above sentence may have to be varied from the dictionary meaning for the sentence to make sense!)

 

[raleighnut]

What a dingleberry.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Having shops, dentists and other facilities close to housing is " sinister?.

FFS.

It is if your business model relies on people being forced to buy cars.

 

[Cycleops]

Leaving before the rush??

Or has he got an offer of a highly paid job due to his expertise and experience???
(The exact meaning of "expertise" in the above sentence may have to be varied from the dictionary meaning for the sentence to make sense!)

No, he's got cancer.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

No, he's got cancer.

Oh OK - fair enough - no-one deserves that - I take back any comments
apologies to him if he ever read this

 

[mjr]

Oh OK - fair enough - no-one deserves that - I take back any comments
apologies to him if he ever read this

It's sad and I wouldn't wish it on anyone but he was still a Muppet transport minister. We've had worse as prime minister since, though.