The Tories loves burying a report. Theresa May did the same thing at the Home Office: she commission a report to try and 'prove' that immigration was bad for the economy, but the report found the exact opposite at every single level, so they sat on it for ages, till I think it was either leaked or someone managed to FOI it.
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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
An official study of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) ordered by Rishi Sunak amid efforts to stop them being built has instead concluded they are generally popular and effective and the report was initially buried, the Guardian has learned.
The long-delayed review by Department for Transport (DfT) officials was commissioned by the prime minister last July, as Sunak sought to capitalise on controversy about the schemes by promising drivers he was “on their side”.
The report is another blow to Sunak in his attempt to attract votes by blocking schemes that encourage active travel, set out in September in a “plan for drivers”, promising a clampdown on LTNs, bus lanes and 20mph speed limits, and moves to prevent councils from fining people for infractions.
As part of the latter policy, it is understood that the DfT plans to launch a consultation on denying councils access to centrally held data from automatic number-plate recognition cameras if it is felt that they are enforcing road rules too vigorously.
LTNs are modal filters, a common traffic management tool used for decades that stops motor vehicles from using smaller, residential streets as cut-throughs, using camera-enforced signs or physical barriers but allowing full access for pedestrians and bikes.
The report found some evidence of the schemes encouraging people to walk and cycle, as well as interim findings that LTNs tended to lead to a reduction in road danger and street crime, while saying more research was needed.
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Yes,everyone wants to live in rural areas. No shit sherlock. Unfirtunately, too many people.
What does this have to do with the article? Also I don’t even think this is true.
People want to have the space, nature, quiet, and perceived safety of rural areas. But they want to amenities, work, and social opportunities of the city. Of course, this is impossible. When forced to choose, most people pick the city.