They Are Coming for Your Streets Now

Be aware people, the neo-Marxists who follow the New World Order of the UN and the great reset of the WEF are coming to restrict your lifestyles to that of the Amish. They are of course doing it under the guise of environmentalism and are now gunning for our streets in more extreme ways. It uses the usual Trojan Horse of the climate con and the strangely obsessive hatred of CO₂ that the neo-Marxists love to tout with their mindless raving about carbon. If you have followed the wittering of Greenpeace New Zealand or the social-controlling agenda of the Helen Clark foundation, you’ll know they have plans for social and physical engineering of your streets. This we see in the barely announced proposals and cafrefully staged ‘consultation’ from the Ardern Government through Te Manatu Waka which pretends to be a transport agency. Consultation closes on Monday the 19^th of September. I just discovered this and it is likely too late for anyone against the proposals.

The website for this consultation is here: https://consult.transport.govt.nz/policy/reshaping-streets-regulatory-changes/consultation/.

In essence they want to restrict how you use your street(s), restrict access to your street(s) or possibly even totally block off your street to your and everyone else’s cars. Even if you can access your street, you may not have a parking space anywhere near your house as it may be filled with ‘street furniture’, a euphemism for ugly concrete structures or planter boxes full of weeds that dropkicks will fill with fast-food wrappers, bottles and other rubbish. Basically, they want to take away most if not all street parking areas to force you to give up car ownership. They also want to be able to close your street at a whim if it has a school in it or some clown wants to host ‘an event’. As usual it is all in the name of ‘safety’ that leftist thinkers use as an excuse to control the public, and it, of course, only caters to the cycle lobby, skateboarders and scooters, and our inadequate public transport services.

This is all going to be implemented as pilots for up to two years, which is another way of saying permanently by stealth, after getting you used to being restricted. Here are some quotes from the proposals with emphasis on the really worrying bits.

Pilots could include street changes like:

• extending or widening footpaths and shared paths
• new bus lanes, cycle lanes, or cycle paths
• removing or reconfiguring on-street car parks
• traffic calming devices like speed bumps
• creating shared zones (areas where people driving motor vehicles need to give way to pedestrians)
• installing modal filters

You may be thinking, what the hell does modal filters mean? It is explained further down.

It’s all done in the usual innocuous and fluffy language of the control freaks that disguises the fact they want you moving around like it’s the year 1900. To paraphrase Prince, they want you ‘to party like it’s 1900’ (not 1999). RCAs are Road Controlling Authorities:

RCAs are becoming increasingly interested in tools that they can use to prioritise people walking, cycling, riding devices or taking public transport, as well as improving the overall efficiency of key routes.

This, of course, is all anti car newspeak.

Inexpensive and effective tools that are often used overseas to do this are modal filters and regulatory filters.

Modal filters are physical features that are installed on roads to control access to different parts of a road, or to calm traffic. For example, bollards could be installed at one end of a street so that only people travelling by foot, bike or transport devices can use that entrance. Bollards can also be used to restrict access to side streets along high traffic roads to keep traffic running smoothly.

Modal filters would only be able to be installed by RCAs if they meet one of the following purposes:

• to improve the access and mobility of pedestrians, people using mobility devices, cyclists, and people using other devices (e.g. scooters and skateboards)
• to improve public transport operations
• to protect and promote public health and safety
• to support environmental sustainability, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions
• to create public places that promote the well-being of communities

Regulatory filters are devices like signs and road markings that are used to clarify which users can access a section of road and who cannot.

Everyone who does not need or want to use a car will be catered for. But if you need a car or just want the freedom to use one, you will likely be bullied into submission with regulatory thuggery.

It is all going to be enabled by the government through changes to regulations to allow local authorities to have more power to do this at a whim and be less impeded doing it. Local government communists, such as those infesting the Wellington City Council (as an example of a terrible council), will have free rein to bully the public with enviro-Marxist ideology and lunatic impractical ideas.

Here are some of the changes (emphasis theirs).

The proposed regulatory changes include:

• a new ‘Street Layouts’ land transport rule for local authorities, as road controlling authorities (RCAs), to use for changing street layouts, piloting street changes, restricting vehicles, establishing Community Streets and School Streets, and for deciding on other street changes
• amending sections in the Local Government Act 1974 (LGA1974) covering pedestrian malls, transport shelters (like bus shelters), and temporary road closures
• changes to other rules and regulations so that local authorities can reduce speed limits as part of pilots, trial Traffic Control Devices (TCDs) more effectively, and to make legislation more accessible.

Make your submissions, people. Time is running out. They’ll ignore you, but at least you can say you tried.