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To combat such rattish behaviour, local councils happily install nonsensical "traffic calming measures" (read roadblocks and hazards), one way systems and bollards to make Mr. and Mrs Suburban happy again that their personal road cannot be used by anyone but themselve.
This is pure and simple just a case of:
- Anti-vehicle political correctness gone way beyond mad.
- Such politically correct activity being legitimised by local government and the media, by gleefully proliferating the term "rat run".
- A quashing of any expression of individuality - i.e. "just know your place, conform and sit in the queue with the rest of the plebs."
Here’s the bottom line. We pay road tax and we want to (in fact sometimes need to) drive our cars. Who are you to tell us what roads we can and can’t drive on?
If the main roads become congested and there alternative routes there will always be a “rat run”. I would have thought it was obvious blatantly obvious that if you solve the congestion problem, you at least go some way to reducing traffic cutting through the villages.
By: Angry Git
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