Oxford Residents Will Soon Be Prisoners of Their Own Neighborhoods
American Thinker | 12/28/22 | Andrea Widburg

… In accordance with UN and WEF climate recommendations, the city of Oxford (home to the famed university) approved plans mandating that citizens may not drive more than 15 minutes’ distance from their homes without permission.

It’s called the “15 Minute City” and is intended to reduce auto emissions.

Mostly, though, it will reduce liberty, which is what climate change madness has always been about.

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… the Oxford City Council went from theory to fact by a council vote on November 29 to implement trial traffic filters as of January 2024 that will require residents to get permission to leave their neighborhoods, all in the name of saving the planet:

“Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.

“Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council, who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council, who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.”

The push to get us into electric vehicles with electronic controls makes more sense.

Straight Line of the Day: First France, now Oxford: Is your government next?