I don't understand what people are getting so worked up about. Councils have been charging for parking for decades, and reading people's number plates (automatically or with a warden's eye) is nothing new. This is just a decision to make car driving less pleasant and/or more expensive, with the objective to reduce car usage.
It's reasona…
I don't understand what people are getting so worked up about. Councils have been charging for parking for decades, and reading people's number plates (automatically or with a warden's eye) is nothing new. This is just a decision to make car driving less pleasant and/or more expensive, with the objective to reduce car usage.
It's reasonable to debate whether the council is making it *too* unpleasant/expensive, but it's really not any more or less Orwellian than what already happens.
Also, if you are an Oxford resident, and you don't like the decisions that your council takes, then consider who to vote for next time. But it's not communism FFS!
And if you're not a resident, then it's really none of your business - if you don't like it, don't visit Oxford.
It's happening all over the world. So yes, we have a right to be interested. And if you think the government preventing you from travelling where you like and watching your every move is freedom, perhaps you deserve tyranny.
I don't understand what people are getting so worked up about. Councils have been charging for parking for decades, and reading people's number plates (automatically or with a warden's eye) is nothing new. This is just a decision to make car driving less pleasant and/or more expensive, with the objective to reduce car usage.
It's reasonable to debate whether the council is making it *too* unpleasant/expensive, but it's really not any more or less Orwellian than what already happens.
Also, if you are an Oxford resident, and you don't like the decisions that your council takes, then consider who to vote for next time. But it's not communism FFS!
And if you're not a resident, then it's really none of your business - if you don't like it, don't visit Oxford.
It's happening all over the world. So yes, we have a right to be interested. And if you think the government preventing you from travelling where you like and watching your every move is freedom, perhaps you deserve tyranny.