Crowd-funded legal bid launched to block Tower Hamlets mayor ripping out traffic-calming measures
Crowd-funded legal bid launched to block Tower Hamlets mayor ripping out traffic-calming measures
Almost 700 people have already pledged £37,000 to the legal fighting fund – though another £45,000 is needed to fund the case
You can support the legal challenge to stop Lutfur Rahman ripping out cycle lanes and pedestrian infrastructure by donating to the crowdfunder: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-our-safer-streets-in-tower-hamlets/?utm_campaign=claim_submission&utm_source=x
It's insane that this guy was ever allowed back near the levers of power after being caught vote rigging.
What's to say he didn't just learn how not to get caught next time? 5 years was too short of a ban for dodgy Rahman
Interesting. Obviously safer streets are good and I generally support schemes like this (I cycle pretty much everywhere in London, and walk or take public transport when I don't cycle). But Rahman was elected on a platform that included reversing these measures. I'm not totally convinced that he should be prevented from doing so, even though I don't agree with him.
He wasn't solely elected on that. His manifesto contained dozens of incoherent contradictory promises. He's a populist and says whatever will get him elected. The fact is that local residents have repeatedly said they want the traffic calming measures to stay and Rahman who claims to be a "listening mayor" is doing the complete opposite. This is culture war posturing and nothing else.
If the campaigners are right and what he's done is illegal then opinions don't really matter, he shouldn't be allowed to conitnue pushing this course of action.
If saving actual lives isn't enough for you to oppose a "democratic" agenda I wonder where you would draw the line.