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Posted on 06/16/2008 4:45:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gordon Brown's futuristic eco-towns to fine residents for driving out of city limits Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor
Motorists living in Gordon Brown's futuristic green communities face fines for driving their cars out of town, under radical proposals being drawn up by ministers, The Times has learnt.
Residents of the largely pedestrianised eco-towns may also be expected to park their cars at the outskirts and walk or cycle to their homes, up to ten minutes away.
These are among possible ways being discussed with ministers to meet a government target to cut car use in eco-towns by half. Detailed planning proposals will be published next month, a senior Whitehall official said.
The proposals could include a fee for a permanent car space at the edge of town, charges for driving out at peak congestion times, or penalties for taking a car out of town above a set number of agreed journeys.
The official emphasised that the rules would be adapted for more rural areas, where there was less public transport. “But outside Cambridge or near Stansted airport, for example, where there are strong transport links, you could be charged for driving out [of the eco-town],” the official said.
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...coming soon to a nation near you. :D
Keep voting Democrat. :D
Lets see, you destroy British culture through excessive immigration, insane self-defense laws and socialism. You then set up a pervasiive surveillance and monitoring system. The next step is to confine the citizens to their immediate areas through social engineering. A high tech prison system all right. I guess the end step is to get rid of those deemed unwanted.”
Sure sounds like it will do wonders for the tourist trade, etc.
Guess we all have to go visit England now before this fool ruins it.
Wonder what the Queen thinks of his ideas??? Or what all the surviving citizens of WW2 are thinking. This is what they sacraficed for???? Another maroon.....
That this is even being PROPOSED under the banner of “eco-green” living is why the foot must be put down on ALL such “feel good” measures and the Leftists must be opposed in government and institutions at every turn.
They want a Socialist Utopia and eventually have gulags for those who “won’t submit”.
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What a wuss. Reminds me of a John Wayne sound bite on a surf rock CD I have where the Duke says ;”If we don’t start thinking as men ,were going to have a lousy country.
“If you want to see the future the Brits (and many others) will live in, watch carefully the rights they take away from “registered sex offenders” without due process of law. “
I heard a story on the radio here the other day about a guy who went nuts and was dancing outside naked. He didn’t molest anyone and wasn’t violent. He was arrested for being a sex offender.
Im not entirely in agreement. I could support it if it were just the unarmed vegan types being piled into these sanitariums.
If things ever go really bad it could make life easier for the rest of us...
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