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That's about restricting private car access to high traffic shopping streets | parish centres, etc.

People are still allowed to travel, to travel in private cars around those zones, and to travel in those zones on foot, by bus, or in a commercial vehicle delivering goods, etc.

Claiming this equates to people "won't be allowed to travel without a permit" is delibrately misleading.

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> That's about restricting private car access to high traffic shopping streets | parish centres, etc.

According to the linked report, it's about:

"Encouraging a change in behaviour to tackle private car use"

The headline targets include replacing or removing 50% of car trips and delivering a net-zero transport network by 2040.

That is great. Private car use is insanely inefficient, and has numerous negative externalities like toxic gas exhaust, increasing the risk of injury to people not in a car, and rubber particulates.

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