The events that have lead up to this are truly terrible but it is great to see people gathering in support of safer streets.
Not that long ago, in Montreal, someone manage to hit a school crossing guard… Also around the same time a kid Ukrainian refugy died from a car collision in a school zone…
Here the majority of citizen wants speed bumps and chicanes to slow down cars. The main opposition comes from firemens (chicanes because their firetrucks are huge and speed bumps because it slows them down and I think smaller truck would have to be imported from Europe and would be expensive) and plowing operations (in Montreal every street gets plowed ~1/week for 3 months a year). It’s very legitimate reason. I which a good solution came up
People need to view this like gun violence. The only difference is theres no debate as to whether or not driving a car is a right guarenteed by the constitution. It should be EASY to solve this legally.
This is in Birmingham in England. So the constitution has nothing to do with it
My brain went straight to “things that could happen in Birmingham, Alabama.” I don’t know about UK law, but I don’t imagine driving a car there is a guaranteed right either
Gun violence isn’t much of an issue in Birmingham, and there isn’t a constitution to guarantee these rights. I think the biggest issues are a lack of enforcement of existing laws (due to lack of funding to the police), minimal sentences for those committing these crimes, and no money for the councils to implement infrastructure based prevention.
