Local activist Clive Carter this week tweeted a copy of the traffic order used to close road near to Finsbury Park to enable the Wireless music event over the past two weekends, questioning what terrorism there was, related to the festival.
On the face of it, he has a point. The application of a measure designed for terrorism scenarios does seem odd. But, in fact, this looks it may have been a clerical oversight since in fact, the order has a much more wide-ranging set of applications.
Orders can be made for the following reasons:
If it was an accidental error, it was surely a bit of a howler by Haringey to have hit on subsection h for inclusion in the notice, but, sparing the hapless employee's blushes, fortunately of no consequence.
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It wasn't a “howler” or a "clerical oversight". The use of the terrorism sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act was deliberate.
Sign: Danger - Elephant Trap.
"Hello: why've you set up an elephant trap? There are no elephants in the elephant trap".
"Well then it's keeping the elephants away isn't it".....
How strange - so much for my giving the benefit of doubt then!
An ATTRO is the most appropriate legislation to be using in the circumstances. The main reason is that some of the infrastructure used to support the road closures also serve as proportionate hostile vehicle mitigation measures.
This seems quite common now when I go to football throughout the country. Lots of measures designed to stop a vehicle plowing into the crowd when previously there were none. Can't remember exactly what triggered it (London Bridge attacks maybe) but, thinking of Arsenal as an example, initially it was just council vans parked up to stop cars getting through but now it is more sophisticated, portable devices like this type of thing
Can't say I'm particularly surprised if that kind of thing was in operation as everyone left Wireless.
It's almost as if they pass a law to counter terrorism - knowing that purpose will get support for it. And then use it for other purposes, such as crowd control, when they know a law like that may not get support.
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