While China breaks the sound barrier, we’re over here installing mindfulness signs next to roundabouts.
🧘♂️ From Jet Age to Jog Pace: Welcome to the Temple of Transport Stagnation
China’s over there strapping passengers to levitating trains hitting 300mph like it’s a casual Tuesday. Meanwhile, in Sadiq Khan’s London, you’re a public menace if you dare to hit 21 in a hatchback. 🐢💨
You can now get from Beijing to Shanghai faster than you can drive from Croydon to Clapham—because while the East is innovating, the West is immobilising. Khan’s grand transport vision? A spiritually enlightened dawdle where the only thing accelerating is the number of signs telling you to slow down and get the prayer mats out.
It’s like someone looked at the cutting-edge future and thought, “What if we did the opposite, but smugly?”
Forget moving forward. We’re building a city where you’re expected to pause every 100 yards, not for safety—but for prayer and peace. It’s not transport; it’s a rolling meditation. Commuters will soon be issued incense sticks instead of Oyster cards. 🚦🕯️
What’s next? Public announcements reminding you that “being late is a social construct”? Perhaps a council-approved Gregorian chant playing softly at every pedestrian crossing? At this rate, a donkey with a limp will beat the Northern Line.
And all in the name of “civilisation.” Because apparently, if you’re in a hurry, you’re a capitalist ghoul who hates puppies and community gardens. Efficiency? Outdated. Urgency? Oppressive. Schedules? Neo-colonialism, probably.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is sprinting into the future on maglev rails while we’re stuck in a LARP of the Neolithic, where forward motion is heresy and every journey is a pilgrimage to the altar of the 20mph sign.
Welcome to London, the only global capital where time travel means going backwards. We might as well use donkeys—fitting, considering government policy seems to be drafted by a stable full of asses. 🐴📜
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