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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 20:59:57 JST Jonathan Schofield

   As a UK election nears (ish), and Tories scramble to be “on the side of drivers”, a reminder that people don’t know what’s good for them ahead of positive change, but then are convinced after the fact that they did know all along

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 20:59:56 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …“When Stockholm introduced a low congestion charge for the bridges, traffic dropped by 20%.

     Doesn’t sound like much, but because traffic is a non-linear phenomenon, the difference in congestion was marked

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 20:59:57 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     That screenshot is from a Twitter account I ran for the Portsmouth #activetravel campaign, Pompey Street Space, back in 2020 when, with COVID knocking us all sideways, the prospects for change were tantalising.

     At the time, Grant Shapps and Robert Jenrick of all people, were tentative cheerleaders for emergency transport policies.

     It wasn’t to be, of course. They would revert to being exactly who they have always been.

     Anyway, the Stockholm traffic story is from here https://youtu.be/CX_Krxq5eUI?si=me_1uNc7u8joeGHj

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 20:59:57 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     Here, adapted, is the précis I created for the Twitter audience back in 2020:

     “This is from pre-COVID times but highly relevant to the court of public opinion when it comes to cars and driving.

     Jonas explains that Stockholm, a city of islands and about 976k people, has traffic constrained by 8 narrow bridges.

     That’s about 122k people per bridge.

     Portsmouth has 3 ‘bridges’. That’s about 72,000 people per bridge…

     Bø!rge repeated this.