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cosmolinguistI'm so annoyed that a Department for Transport report that would be directly hugely immediately relevant to my day job is being buried because it says the opposite of what Rishi Sunak wanted it to say when he commissioned it: that "low traffic neighborhoods" are popular and effective.
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Date: 2024-03-09 10:39 pm (UTC)I'm sorry.
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Date: 2024-03-09 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-03-10 12:37 am (UTC)As an American, I continue to love the UK usage of the word "scheme" though.
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Date: 2024-03-12 04:08 pm (UTC)Yeah it took me a while to get used to! But now it seems really normal to me, it just means "project" or "plan" or sometimes even "group."
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Date: 2024-03-10 12:44 am (UTC)Wow
Date: 2024-03-10 06:22 pm (UTC)Ridiculous!
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Date: 2024-03-11 01:28 am (UTC)Given how bad almost all UK media reporting is these days, unless I can see the source, I'm wary even if I do believe it doesn't say what Sunak wanted it to - which is typical of this fucking horrific government.
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Date: 2024-03-11 09:45 am (UTC)Oh I desperately want to see the report. Of course I have no way to know how accurate it is, but considering how very very little the DfT (and other departments I'm sure, but that's the one I know about) have done in the last year or two, there's no way they'd bury this report if it was to their liking.
But honestly whatever it says, I'm desperate for more actual data, there's hardly any on such things and it makes it difficult and annoying to do my job!
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Date: 2024-03-16 05:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-03-18 08:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, and not just the money in this case, but also potential votes in an upcoming election. The furore/conspiracy theories around traffic-calming measures have led the Tories to nail their colors to the mast of being the "car-friendly party," and they have to fight an election soon...
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Date: 2024-03-19 01:28 am (UTC)