Posted on 12/17/2024 2:28:10 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
In his annual health-of-the-nation report England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty appears to be in favor of the “15-minute city” urban planning concept that, in recent years, has attracted the ire of conspiracy theorists, motoring die-hards and many right-of-center politicians.
“Cities should be ideal places for enabling active travel with shorter distances to the things we need or want on a regular basis, including supermarkets, places of leisure, work or healthcare,” Professor Whitty’s report says
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It all depends on whether or not this is what the Muslims want.
What I need (and have) is a lot of fields and woodland without any other people around me. YMMV.
[‘15-Minute Cities’]
Okay, try to follow me here...
7 ... minute ... abs
And if you’re not satisfied we throw in the extra minute for free
15 min city = cage for the proles
They want us locked into a small filthy work areas while the have the earth as their backyard.
Now: You should live in a 15-minute city.
Later: You must live in a 15-minute city.
Do it for the children. And to save the Earth. And other stuff.
“shorter distances to...supermarkets”
For the English to have shorter distances to supermarkets means tower blocks of apartments.
If tower blocks were the norm, housing prices would collapse.
Oh, people would spend less money on housing, and employers would spend less on wages and salaries.
Tower blocks are no longer the norm for low-income housing for security and maintenance reasons.
I live in a 15 minute city....I can take my car and drive anywhere in a 15 minute radius and buy what I need.
“shorter distances to...work”
London isn’t going to suddenly shrink.
In fact, a lot of people want to expand it by building on greenbelt land.
Chris Whitty of CoupFlu infamy...
Proves? It’s the bureaucratic elite and the welfare queens who live like that in the US. The paroles have homes in rural communities and drive pickup trucks with tools to build things and fix things.
Control.
It’s fine when it’s your choice. When it becomes mandatory — and it could — it’s not so fine.
I think you found the motive- turn vacant land over to developers. Like all the guys who want to build new things on the Washington mall and the federal parks in DC. It’s greed pure and simple.
I too live in a “15 minute city”. Anything I want or need is actually more like 10 minutes
I live in a 5 minute Town. It’s wonderful...Target, Kohls, Aldi, Bjs, Tjs, Walmart, Pizza and wing shops. I love it!!
How can the left claim they know what’s best for us if they can’t make up their minds?
Ironically, we had those until planning and zoning got over zealous with power. There was a time when you could have a store on the bottom floor and live above it on the top floor. Now this is against code. You have to live in a residential zone and drive 5-20 miles to open your store in a commercial zone. Even further in rural areas.
Customers could once just walk around the corner to their local mom and pop shop. Now they have to drive miles to buy a loaf of bread. Zoning laws are now extremely unproductive for everyone. If they are actually serious about their green agenda just changing this zoning mess would immediately make a huge difference.
There would not be any need to build 15 minute cities.
“I live in a 5 minute Town. It’s wonderful...Target, Kohls, Aldi, Bjs, Tjs, Walmart, Pizza and wing shops. I love it!!”
Same here, Everything anyone would need yet I live five minutes from town and my nearest neighbor is a mile away from me. Best of both worlds. :)
15 minute cities would be very useful in cutting off people from the rest of the world.
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