COVID Passports were a dream come true for those trying to restrict the free travel of citizens.
And now, the County Council in Oxfordshire, England has another scheme ahead. It has approved plans to begin ‘trial’ climate restrictions using traffic filter permits to restrict the amount of driving area residents can do.
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 story garnered international press and the Council was forced to clarify the scheme.
A spokesperson will ban private vehicles from six areas of the city at certain times and are set be introduced following the completion of rail bridge works on Botley Road in 2023.
Contrary to the viral article’s claims, there will be no “physical barriers”, with the restricted zones monitored by <a href="https://www.oxfordshirelive.co.uk/all-about/traffic-travel" target="_self" rel="Follow noopener" data-link-tracking="InArticle
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