Articles like those generally take a very shallow approach to peoples concerns, calling them things like conspiracies. Policies for 15 minute cities and policie

Articles like those generally take a very shallow approach to peoples concerns, calling them things like conspiracies. Policies for 15 minute cities and policies for Low Emissions Zone are separate kind of policies, but in a two-party system it is very likely that a political party is in favor of either both or neither. Voters do not have the choice of selecting one but not the other, so the two policies get lumped together. Looking at other countries in Europe, all (or most of them) seem to require some kind of extra registration and monitoring when it comes to Low Emissions Zone. Again, technically there is nothing that requires low emission zones to implement heavy handed registration and monitoring, but as has been demonstrated they do tend to go together. Even in countries with multi-party system, there is generally no party to vote for which want Low Emissions Zone without the inclusion of extra registration and monitoring.