Traffic restrictions are taking over our cities, with little chance of a U-turn. Drivers will have to get used to paying their way, writes Rosie Kinchen
Two days before Christmas is usually a busy time for Dan Lentell, a stay-at-home father in Cambridge. But a fortnight ago, instead of wrapping presents for his children, he was addressing a crowd of hundreds on a park in the city centre and railing against social injustice. “What’s happening is that this is a well-dressed group of people who are shoving poorer people out of the way, like on the Titanic where the rich push past the poor to get to the lifeboats,” Lentell said to cheers.
The cause of his ire was not strikes or the spiralling wealth of the 1 per cent but a proposal from a government body called Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) to introduce a £5 charge on all vehicles entering the city centre.
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