![]() ![]() Residents aren’t on lockdown & traffic can enter/exit the different zones.” Traffic scheme The council issued a statement in response to the misleading claim circulating online on December 7, saying its staff and councillors had been abused due to “inaccurate information” on social media and that it would report the most extreme abuse to the police.Ĭonservative county councillor Liam Walker, who opposed proposals for the traffic filters trial, tweeted in response to the online claims: “I don’t support the LibDem/Labour/Green bus gate plans but this is a completely untrue tweet. “Everywhere in the city will still be accessible by car, although some private car drivers may need to use a different route during the operating hours of the traffic filters.” “Traffic filters are not a climate lockdown, they are designed to reduce traffic on inner city roads in Oxford,” the spokesperson told AFP on December 8. The claim has also spread in other languages including French and Portuguese.Īccording to a council spokesperson, residents will not be locked down in their homes as part of the plans, which aim to reduce congestion. ![]() US Fox News commentator Steve Milloy also shared a similar claim to his 63.9k followers on Twitter. Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean discussed Vision News’ screenshot on a TV programme and his reporting was subsequently shared by Canadian right-wing professor Jordan Peterson. The screenshot and the article have been shared more than 940 times, with the claim spreading online in Australia, the United States, Canada and the UK. The claim circulated after the council approved a £6.5 million ($7.93 million) traffic filters trial to limit private vehicles travelling on busy city routes during peak hours on November 29.Īccording to the county’s website, six traffic filters will be installed inside Oxford roads “to reduce traffic, make bus journeys faster and make walking and cycling safer.” A screenshot of the misleading post, captured on December 9, 2022 “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,” the text reads. “Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. ![]() The article, which was published by online magazine Vision News on November 30, suggested Oxfordshire residents would be “confined to their local neighbourhood and have to ask permission to leave it all to ‘save the planet’.” Social media users shared a screenshot of a misleading article titled “Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown ‘trial’ to Begin in 2024”. ![]()
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