Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 50 - August 1998Back to list of articles in this issue

London RTS Do It Properly

While New Labour announced their White Paper on Transport, which says little about the rights of pedestrians and cyclists, London Reclaim the Streets solved all our problems with their Green, Black and Red paper. It bans private cars from city centres, redirects the saved money into making public transport free, rules that car ads must carry a government health warning, and converts the M25 into the world's largest circular organic allotment. Simultaneously there occurred a large-scale subvertising round of London billboards in order to redecorate Ford’s latest advertisements with tube maps and bicycle posters to celebrate the paper’s release. Hoorah.