• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, sport events like that normally work with emergency services so that there are alternate or controlled routes for things like ambulances and fire trucks.

    Meanwhile highway protests can block emergency services with no forethought. Imagine your parent died of a heart attack because EMS couldn’t get past some people blocking a road in a protest meant to inconvenience the general public who mostly already agree with their overall goals.

    • sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 day ago

      The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.