War on Motorists: Birmingham Council to Turn Ring Road Into Park to Mimic Copenhagen
Birmingham’s Labour-run council plans to turn part of the city’s famous ring road into a “park that circles the city” in an effort to put “pedestrians and cyclists first”.
Labour’s City Council Leader Ian Ward explained on Radio 4’s Today programme that the goal is to double the amount of green space and become “carbon zero”.
MailOnline has the story.
According to the plans for how Birmingham might look in 2040, it will double its green spaces and build around 124 miles of walking and cycling routes, placing it on a level with Denmark’s cycling haven capital city Copenhagen.
‘”The plan we are going to be launching tomorrow is a route map to a greener Birmingham, creating more jobs, better transport options and having higher quality, more energy efficient new homes,” Mr Ward, told Radio 4 Today.
“We are already a city on the up and we’re looking to use the investments coming in to double the amount of green space in the city, making us as green as Vienna, and to double active travel routes to some 200km which will put us at the same level for cycle friendliness as Copenhagen.
“This is probably the most ambitious plan in a century for the city and it’s going to map out how we’ll become carbon zero and how we will green our city in the future.”
Mr Ward claimed the council is attracting record levels of investment into the city.
He said they are working with developers and investors “to ensure that as the city expands out into the deprived communities beyond the ring road that the wealth that this creates as a result is shared with those communities. We’re also working to create a new park in Birmingham, right in the heart of the city centre, creating a green space – in order to ensure the city is more liveable.”
Mr. Ward said the “plan has been very well received”. No comment was provided from motorists who will have to find new ways to get to work.
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Krakow pulled down its old city walls and put a park there instead. In other words, they made movement more easy, not more difficult. Quite an enlightened move, I’m sure you’d agree.
Get it together, Birmingham. You’re totally confused.
And jerico! By trumpet 🎺
Speaking of motorists, this is awesome. You can tell it’s not the UK as not a single uniformed goon in sight. Pick ’em up by the scruff or the legs and chuck ’em out the road, job done. 🙂
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1657930874011234307
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And you live in uk Marcus ?
Love gladiator, it is one of my favourite films of all time!
Great, are you french? Expat or other? Lovely to hear like minded people from all over the place!!!
Another nice idea would be for all men in the blocked cars queueing to urinate on the people in the street. My guess would be they’d leave voluntarily before too long.
And a classy addition would be if all the women could identify as men and join in with the golden showering activity, in the name of equality of course. If one is to be inconvenienced then best use these numbskulls as your public convenience. It would be karmic.🚽🌧☔
Golden showering! Look I’ve been alive long enough to know what that means! You dirty little…….mog!.
There are definitely some things les francaise do better than us. A marvellous viewing.
Hux, I’m selston Notts! M1 jnc 28,not there now though !😅
You and Mogs(dutch,expat) seem good sorts! Bless
Décompresse ces fichiers, dis-moi ce que tu trouves.
Me duck!
Mais oui.
You sound more British than Dutch!
Ello ello ello, what’s all this ere then Sony?
Mogwai is a Geordie lass.
Modern ‘park’ designs for cities remind me of glorified prison yards. Wait until all the grass areas are churned up by the desire paths created by people walking to where they want to go, not the way designers and deranged utopian civic authoritarians tell them. And all that sheltered parkland will make going out at night a complete no-no.
That’s a good point.
I used to live in inner-city Manchester. I would never have gone through a park after dark. And even in the daytime parks were full of people that you wouldn’t want to tangle with. That’s pretty much why we moved away…because I realised that I wouldn’t want my kids to go to the park on their own at any age.
Who in foreign occupied Bham, voted to turn transport into green areas for dog shitting? Who in Bham knows a thing about their council or councillors or the planning dept?
Was there a referendum? The intent to abolish cars is obvious. As if there are no other places, or spaces to plant some bloody trees or shrubs. How many current parks are under-utilised in foreign occupied Bham? What replaces the ring road for normal people who have to work and travel?
I would be interested to hear how deindustrialisation creates more jobs, and how reducing car use equates to ‘better transport options’, but I suspect i’ll be wasting my time with this idiot.
‘I would be interested to hear how deindustrialisation creates more jobs…’
Thats easy to explain. Pre-industrialisation 80% of jobs were on the land; post-industrialisation just 1% of jobs on the land.
So… reverse that and you get more jobs.
Ha, ha, ha. You beat me to it. Absolutely correct.
Of course once Birmingham has been suitably depopulated there won’t be many left to fill the odd few vacancies, so problem solved.
“The growth potential of sectors such as automotive, technology, startups or micromobility is very high. Sustainable mobility is capable of creating its own ecosystem of companies. The digitalisation and publication of transport open data generates new possibilities that a few years ago would have seemed like science fiction,” said Spain’s Minister of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez.
Sounds like word salad to me. But this is their theory.
https://cities-today.com/industry/reducing-dependence-cars-public-private-collaboration/
Isn’t it somewhat a coincidence.. that no matter what country these ministers come from or what language they speak the make up of their diatribe is identical in every case.
Its almost as if they read from a prepared script.. but of course.. they’d never do that would they, being representatives of separate sovereign countries and populations..
Blimey George, me and thee typing the same thing at the same time.
Of course none of this is being done in Lockstep. Oh, no, heaven forbid, Spain just so happens to be working, coincidentally on EXACTLY the same sort of projects as the larger British cities. But it is definitely not Lockstep and there definitely isn’t a central Command and Control running these definitely NOT Lockstep programs.
“The growth potential of sectors such as automotive, technology, startups or micromobility is very high. Sustainable mobility is capable of creating its own ecosystem of companies. The digitalisation and publication of transport open data generates new possibilities that a few years ago would have seemed like science fiction,” said Spain’s Minister of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez.
“Micromobility” heh? Well, well, well the Department of Truth on overtime. Is that just an Orwellian word for shackling the oiks?
And “sustainable mobility?” So oil based transport then or a euphemistical way of say “you won’t be going far.”
Yes Mr Sanchez has spouted word salad but it is definitely not of his concoction.
It sounds like everyone will be employed making bus timetable apps to me
And apps to hire microscooters.
This is what they mean when they say ‘micromobiliy’ – rentable scooters.
They particularly like the idea of rentable scooters because you need an app with your ID to use it (ostensibly to check you are old enough) and because it has a tracker showing everywhere you’ve been and they can sell the data that is produced.
They are less keen on private bicycles and good old fashioned walking, because people don’t need any of their tracking apps.
These goons will turn their cities into ghost towns, like San Francisco and New York with their loony plans. Good.
Birmingham main roads become prison parks
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What the feck! Has this to do Birmingham?
I loved Britain, but sadly it no longer represents me! Britain’s values have dissolved! It’s not even a puppet of America anymore because thats run by a puppet!
Pick up your pitch forks! Violence is the only remaining option !: pitch forks r us! Get em while there hot there lovely! Larks tongues otters noses…
I despair 😔
The film Escape From New York starring Kurt Russell will have nothing compared to Birminghams proposed Human Zoo enclosure , The Fu-kers in charge of all this SHIZ need a lesson from the people asap ( somehow 🤬)
Its bad enough trying to drive in and around Birmingham. If this plan makes it worse, companies will abandon the city for places where transport is far better and easier. Its not just the motorists that need to travel to work, but organisations that care about their staff realise that being able to get to work and having somewhere to park when you get there, has value in attracting the best workers. If this council is trying to take Birmingham back to the 1930s when the only way to travel was by bicycle, to fit some ridiculous net-zero agenda I think the people of Birmingham when they start to realise how crazy that is, will object and kick these idiots out. If they don’t the next stage will be moving closer to the Stone Age. All to try to change Climate, which is pointless because we can never have any control over it and the so-called negative effect of human added CO2 is actually a slight benefit. Unless these idiots think they can control the sun and its effect on our climate, they should realise net-zero is an unnecessary restriction on the developments that have helped increase our health, freedom,… Read more »