A British academic who pushed for low traffic neighbourhoods, also known as 15 minute cities, was caught on CCTV appearing to down a petition against it.
Dr Anna Goodman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine specialises in “evaluating sustainable transport interventions,” and is the joint lead in an upcoming £1.5 million study into the effect of “low traffic neighbourhoods.”
These schemes, shortened to LTNs and known as “15 minute cities,” restrict and regulate the freedom of citizens to drive in certain areas if you do not live in them, subjecting people to fines, and blocking off roads entirely.
Last week Goodman was seen tearing down a petition poster in a shop in West Dulwich, London, that encouraged residents to demand the local Lambeth Council not go ahead with their proposed road closures, warning against the effect it could have on local businesses, as well as increasing congestion and pollution.
In the footage, Goodman seemed to wait until the coast was clear before tearing the poster down. The video was later shared into a local WhatsApp group, with one warning shopkeepers about the behaviour.
After this video emerged of transport academic, Dr Anna Goodman, ripping down a poster advertising a petition against the LTNs in West Dulwich, pressure mounts for her to step aside from all her work on LTNs.
Can't say we disagree when she behaves like this ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/MrXwjwTf6h
— Clean Air For All Dulwich (@DulwichCleanAir) July 3, 2023
“Perhaps Anna would like to explain herself,” one resident posted in the group. “I started the petition, so perhaps she can return it to me or the shop that she stole it from. Six hundred and one people have signed the petition so far.
Goodman admitted that it was her in the video, saying it was “stupid” of her to have taken the post down. “Have returned it to the shopkeeper and apologised – sorry also to you.” Local resident David Taylor, who helped set the petition up, said it was “beyond ironic that one of the petition posters was taken down by an academic who is commissioned to review LTNs.”
“You have to question her independence when an academic that writes about LTNs… also has her house situated in the proposed West Dulwich LTN and house prices could benefit with alleged quieter streets,” Taylor added.
In a statement to The Telegraph, the academic claimed that when she “engaged in a personal capacity” in campaigns for 15 minute cities, this was completely separate to her “professional role and… research.”
JOHN MAYOR
July 5, 2023 at 3:35 pm
In reference to Goodman, this is what happens when one lusts after/ idolizes one’s beliefs (in this case, in the utility and infallibility of LTNs) and proceeds to marginalizes and attacks those critical of one’s “lustful agenda”… and all the while, failing to acknowledge the paramountcy of love!
Plato V2.0
July 6, 2023 at 10:34 am
paramountcy????
Please define that, I can’t find that word anywhere.
JOHN MAYOR
July 6, 2023 at 3:55 pm
You can’t find paramountcy?… you can’t be looking very hard! It’s interchangeable with SUPREMACY.
JOHN MAYOR
July 5, 2023 at 3:52 pm
In reference to Goodman, this is what happens when one lusts after/ idolizes one’s beliefs (in this case, in the utility and infallibility of LTNs) and proceeds to marginalize and attack those critical of one’s “lustful agenda”… and all the while, failing to acknowledge the paramountcy of love!
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Unless we are God… and surely, we would know of our God-like status!… we should be open to the possibility, that our assertions may be in error! And to defend our assertions at all costs, because such have become our sum identity… while failing to identify with love!… should compel us to ask ourselves: What is our identity?… with whom, and with what have we sought to align?… TO BECOME?
dunce
July 5, 2023 at 4:30 pm
over educated idiots.
Buddy
July 6, 2023 at 8:45 am
under educated idiots
Peter Halligan
July 5, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Is she “trans”? – the headline refers to “his dram”
JOHN MAYOR
July 5, 2023 at 10:51 pm
Greetings, “balanced” learner!…
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The Greek morpheme, idios (from the Greek, ἴδιος… for one’s own, personal, private!) is an expression that has been much sorely abused and misused over centuries of “pejorative ascriptions” by countless thoughtless individuals! The Greek “idios”, refers… PURELY!… to “one’s individuality”, or “one’s membership in the family of individuals”! And so!… to subsume this expression within the “pejorative ascriptions” that bend– yea, break!– the simple “linguistic morphemic narrative” for this word for “personal” and “individual”, is to impose an “informal colloquialism”– but, indeed, slang!– that was never originally a part of the “FORMAL ASCRIPTION” of/ for this term!
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For example, the Greek suffixal morphemic element “-sis”, pertains to the state/ condition/ process of something! And when added to the term idios, we get the useage, IDIOSIS… i.e., the “state”, “condition”, or “process” of “one’s own person” or “one’s own individuality”! And, when adding the adjectival suffixal morphemic element of idio-sis (i.e., forming “IDIO-TIC”!… for “the state/ condition/ process of one’s own person, or one’s own individuality”!), or merely adding -ic to idio-(t) (and again, forming “IDIOT-IC”!… from ic-os, and ik-os!… for “pertaining to one’s own person, or one’s own individuality”!), we ‘re met with a “contemporary pejorative ascription” THAT HAS N-O-T-H-I-N-G T-O D-O WITH THE PROPER INTERPRETATION OF “IDIO-TIC”/ “IDIOT-IC”! [Note: The use -ic, a softened, and clipped version of “ik”, from ik-os, and the use -os, from ic-os and ik-os… referring to that which is “characteristic of”, or “abounding in”!]
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According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής, meant (in ancient Greek), “civilian (ref Josephus Bell 2 178)”/ “private citizen (ref sb 3924 9 25)”! What we have recieved instead, however, is an imposed PEJORATIVE COLLOQUIAL/ SLANG ASCRIPTION for idiot, that trashes a meaning that was never a part of this CLASSICAL FORMAL NEOLOGISM! And compounding this etymologic confusion, are the problems associated with an attempt to add the Greek suffixal morphemic element, “etes (for ‘AGENT’, and ‘AGENCY’!)”, and its variants (i.e., -et, -ete, -tes, -te and -t!) to idio-(s)! And so… when we remove/ replace the suffixal morphemic character (s) from idios, and attempt to add the suffixal morphemic element “-t”, we are again confronted by this “PEJORATIVE ASCRIPTION”!… rather, than a NORMAL CLASSICAL ASCRIPTION that reads: “an agent of one’s own person, or individuality”, or the “agency of one’s own person, or individuality”! And again, although one can simply add the suffixal morphemic element -ic to idiot, doing so will result in the foolish imposition of a PEJORATIVE COLLOQUIAL/ SLANG that will render this otherwise useful term, useless!
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This ABUSE of idios, has resulted in an unnecessary hurdle to linguists, and neologists, in their reasonable attempts to introduce other formal prefixal, infixal, and suffixal morphemic elements based upon this “CLASSIC FORMAL ROOT WORD”!… and has meant the loss of other possible Classic Formal Ascriptions! And which could have– would have!– fostered our historic and contemporary wisdom/ understanding/ knowledge of the notion of the PERSON, or INDIVIDUAL! An utterly regrettable loss! And all due– unfortunately– to the “preoccupation” with MINDLESS PEJORATIVE ASCRIPTIONS by ILLITERATE BULLIES! That is… thus far!
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Proverbs C. 1: v. 22 declares…
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“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?” [NIV]
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Jesus Christ is Lord, and He rose from His death!
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youtube*com/watch?v=KgCaTPv1_uY (replace the asterisk)
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Obedient faithful!… please forgive the background audio distortion (like listening to a sea shell)! This was introduced by an enemy of this UK version of the video, and was not present in earlier URL releases! In addition to this videos recently added audio distortion, google-yt keeps “rescripting” this video’s URL address and, the TRUE TALLY of its viewership! Simply stated, once google-yt changes the videos URL address… effected several times since this ORIGINAL was created!… goo-yt then has an “excuse” to “re-tally” this video’s true viewership! Nasty!
Dgjot
July 6, 2023 at 8:52 am
From Dictionary.Com
idiot
[ id-ee-uht ]SHOW IPA
See synonyms for: idiotidiotsidiotic on Thesaurus.com
noun
👉Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
If you think you can wear that outfit to a job interview and get hired, you’re an idiot!
Psychology. (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a person of the lowest order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
JOHN MAYOR
July 6, 2023 at 10:04 am
Dictionary.com?… Thesaurus.com?… ha, ha, ha! You need tools such as biblehub.net’s Strong’s Greek search/ Thayer’s Greek search and perseus.tufts.edu, if you want to study the Greek morphemic elements that/ which the Romans stole, and which are the true foundation of/ for the Anglish Language.
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(Attention: the addition of the Latin suffixal morphemic element, “-al [from the Latin adjectival suffix, ‘ālis’, for pertaining to]”, is a redundant suffixal element when used with the Greek suffixal morpheme, “-ic [from ‘-ikos’/ ‘-ic(os)’, for pertaining to]… and should be abandoned as an addition to “-ic [the addition of ‘-al’ to Latin-based ‘infixal elements’ being the exception]”! In addition, in light of the historic evidence that/ which links the scribes of the Province of Latium to the “Romanization” of Greek culture and language… beginning, circa 146 BC… the continued allowance of this perverse linguistic subjugation of a Greek suffixal element and language that/ which needed, and needs no “Romanization”, is to continue to allow for the “cultural and linguistic abuse” by “cultural and linguistic bullies”, of a purer form of cultural and linguistic tradition– the “rational” cultural and linguistic seers of Ancient Rome being the exceptions. The Greek transliterations have a “pertaining to”… in the form of, “-ic”… and thus, NEED NO ADDITIONAL “LATINIZED VERSION” APPENDED TO IT.)
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Lastly…
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A comma should always come AFTER the second set of single or double quotes re a quoted expression… or that used for emphasis… unless, such is a part of the quoted expression! Otherwise, one is making a comma– by “grammati̲c̲ default”!– a part of the quoted expression… and thereby and therewith in the doing, imposing intrusive pseudogrammati̲c̲ rules upon another’s quoted expressions. And is in the same category as, “Please remove your foot from my doorway!”. And for histori̲c̲ context, see the page within the typewriter (postcredit) at the end of the UNEDITED ORIGINAL of the film, The More The Merrier (starring Joel McCrae and Jean Arthur)… BUT, ETCETERA.
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and…
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It should be noeology (see, noesis) not “psychology”… the latter, from the Greek use psuché/ psychē/ breath, that untutored Greek students believed was the essence of mind… but, was soon to be replaced by nous/ noia/ mind as the repository of consciousness. And yes!… early Greek scholars (e.g., Hippocrates) began to realize that the head was the “seat” of intentionality… of thelema.
Rebecca Holstine
July 5, 2023 at 11:45 pm
I have my doubts if she would have returned the poster to the shopkeeper,or said I’m sorry, if she hadn’t been caught on the camera. I believe it made an honest woman of her.
Cheyenne
July 9, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Exactly! I was about to type the same thing!!