[ajvs]

Because you're missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement) and councils implementing 15-minute city-aligned schemes which also limit movement.

[jodrellblank]

What about when trains and busses were privatised, made more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement)? What about when tax on petrol and diesel was increased making travel more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement)[1]? What about speed limits and one-way streets and no-entry signs existing and restricting your movement? What about increases in cost of parking over the years (same again) or for employees of hospitals (restricting freedom of employment)?

"ULEZ making travel more expensive" - isn't that what people who claim to love freedom so often want, free markets which adjust things based on monetary incentives?

[1] https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/fuel-news/chancellor-facing...

[seagullriffic]

> missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive

I'm more than 95% sure that you, a Hacker News commenter, do not have a non-compliant vehicle in the UK which you "need" to visit London, which has the best public transport in Europe. So why spread this FUD except to make it harder to enact these policies to clean the air?

Why, just why, are people against clean air? "Yes, but not like that!"

> councils implementing 15-minute city-aligned schemes which also limit movement.

Just where does this come from. If you want to visit or live in a city, then you appreciate density. Private cars are anathema to density. The logic is not hard.

[Zpalmtree]

yes, the only possible reason to want the government not to limit your travel is because you hate the environment