Conservatives always make leftists sound cooler than they really are lol.
In fact, I took one of my taglines from Trump’s anti-trans executive order, “An Anti American Ideology”. I’m a trans performer
Opening lines of the article:
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels
Oh fucking please. NYC has always been a shit-show to drive in. If they would improve the mass transit options, i would never choose to drive in.
Media is just the mouthpiece for the rich and it shows.
Well the NYPost is literally owned by Rupert Murdoch. (Trump’s billionaire buddy who owns Fox News and half the Australian media).
So this is par for the course I’m afraid.
More of this please, I want NYPOST in tears every single day.
🤣 “War on Drivers”. Thanks NY Post, I needed a laugh
Good. Fuck car culture. Fuck the nypost too.
LETS
FUCKIN
GOOOOOOO
That New York Post article is a hate-filled piece of garbage.
For example, it hates against these “polarizing rat-riddled street dining shacks” (quote is from the article).
I can guarantee you, i live in Vienna, we have these things all over the place. There’s at least 5 of them on my way from where i live to university. There’s never been any problems with them. In fact, they’re delicious and typically much cheaper than sit-in restaurants. That’s probably because they don’t have to pay for expensive rooms. That makes the food much cheaper, it’s typically around 5€ for a kebab (basically a sandwich) compared to 12€ for anything you get at a sit-in restaurant. I have gone to these street dining shacks every day for years and never had problems.
It would be better to give the businesses and landlords some certainty and allow them to be built as a permanent structure. Add better trash holding infrastructure while they are at it.
Is that picture real? It looks like it should be a KenM post, talking about the very normal-looking restaurant shack instead of the prominent pile of un-binned garbage.
I would take these over franchises any day!
None of those were freestanding food places, they were simply an outside dining area for places that already had inside dining areas that nobody wanted to uses during Covid. Those little seating booths were necessary during Covid, when nobody wanted to be trapped in sealed rooms with other strangers, but their usefulness has passed, and we are left with the problems.
For one thing, they took away parking spaces, which are already extremely scarce. Secondly, because they are slightly raised, they made for a perfectly safe little living space for vermin under the floorboards. Thirdly, none of them were built with any kind of permits or regulations, and they were getting run down and poorly maintained, and that was only going to get worse. Finally, they’re only useable for only about half the year anyway.
They were kind of neat during Covid, when everyone was trying anything they could to keep their businesses operating, and the government was willing to look the other way for a change, but those times have passed, and these things have become more trouble than they’re worth any more.
Sounds like they could use some iteration to reach their final form
A bio, so you don’t need to read the ridiculous NY post https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/profile/ben-furnas/
@CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.
Furnas previously served 8 years in the New York City Mayor’s Office
The scaremongering is strong with this newspaper!
nypost was so sour about mamdani’s election that it lead to this masterpiece:
I hope Mamdani frames one of those bad boys and hangs it on his office door.
He should have the city seize the means of production. Specifically, seize the NY Post. Turn it into an actually useful news source.
Accurately rename it the NY Dumpster but change nothing else about it.
New york post going full onion parody of itself. Might as well have batboy on the front page.
God, that’s hot. I want this.
I need to put stuff up on my walls, and this is actually something that I would put up as artwork
Is this pic really real?
yes it is
Oh my god! I’m speechless.
Where can I enlist for this war on cars?
Either way I read the article and I absolutely love everything they are saying Furnas is going to do.
I want to highlight a thingy in the article, NYT mentions “What about the mobility of seniors?” like they are all allowed to drive or have someone to drive them around if not.
Right here.
I hadn’t been to nyc for several years until this past weekend and the difference with e-bikes really struck me. There are so many more bike lanes than there used to be, so many more people on their e-bikes than there used to be, and even some cargo e-bikes like Amazon delivery. Manhattan taking “the right road” to transportation! Keep on going!
Oh yeah, my point. Anywhere an e-bike or cargo bike can go, so can personal mobility for seniors. Now that we have bike lanes, let’s take the next lane for golf carts.
This was definitely my type of trip: grab a Dunks on the way out of the house, hop an Acela down to nyc, watch some hockey, walk around tourist areas, and hop the Acela back!
New York is going to get the same media coverage as Paris did. Paris got so much better in the last 15 years it’s absolutely crazy.
Really? How so? I’ve wanted to visit for decades; I haven’t been scared, just poor 😅
Paris did the same thing Mamdani wants to do in NYC: Turn roads into green spaces and pedestrian paths/bikeways and make it much easier to get around without a car. While the people there were at first unsure about it and complained, they’ve been really happy with it now that it’s proven itself to be beneficial. The air is cleaner, and the streets are safer and far less congested. It’s totally transformed Paris.
That sounds great. I’m really happy for Paris!
Good news: its going to become much more affordable soon. Rent freezes, free busses, $30 minimum wage…
Have a look at this short video of some streets “before and after”. Hidalgo (the mayor) has given Paris a complete makeover. People are swimming in the Siene again!
Bikelash
the negative and outsized reaction of car culture to change
- Denial - “We will never be Amsterdam”
- Anger - comes in many forms, from demonization of cyclists as reckless to TV hosts yelling at a mayor <-- this story is here
- Bargaining - resort to last-ditch efforts, e.g. lawsuits
- Depression - self explanatory
- Acceptance - people appear out of nowhere and start biking to school, work, wherever
Source:
Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek
Solution: become a Bikeshevik.
I fully support the pedal and saddle!
Goodness, this article was a pain to read. Every single point raised is easily refutable but there’s one particular paragraph I wanted to pick apart:
Among the plan’s more than 80 demands is a bizarre proposal to build playgrounds smack in the middle of city streets that would then be redesigned into cul-de-sacs — a move the group claims will solve the city’s “playground desert problem.”
Imagine calling a plan to build more playgrounds - something that would provide a long-term benefit for children- “bizarre” just because it just might remove some streets? I don’t want come off as employing the overused “think of the children” argument since it’s used to justify censorship but children do, in fact, have a right to clean spaces with breathable, unpolluted air.
This COMMUNIST thinks building PLAYGROUNDS will solve the LACK OF PLAYGROUNDS?! Gadzooks, what fooferaw! Communists are so silly! Let the free market provide playgrounds.
Goodness, this article was a pain to read.
The NY Post is cancer. Anyone who works there should seriously reconsider their life choices.
They’re trying to claim the playgrounds will be in the middle of the street. They even post a picture of an obviously poorly designed playground in between streets to associate the two ideas
This is despite the fact the whole point of closing low traffic streets to make a playground and cul de sac is so we don’t have to put a playground in a literal street
It’s propaganda, plain and simple
it is funny how low they are willing to go, not even journalistic integrity is stopping them anymore. should have the name of the writer out there and his twitter account so they can be shamed on public. If this is an actual person and not fake name or AI.
Wow that was a horrible and very onesided article.
Well it’s the New York post which is basically a tabloid.
The Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
He said…basically…a tabloid…
Yes. Mods should ban links to it
Nonetheless it gives Furnas free publicity.
War on Drivers
Dogshit title.
Its a war on the automotive industry and their planet killing infrastructure that’s forced millions of Americans to own cars they can’t even afford to get to jobs late that don’t even adequately compensate them.
Dogshit title.
The NY Post is a dogshit tabloid.
Oh yes, that planet-killing infrastructure that allows your groceries to be delivered to your store.
Let me guess, your ideal future for humanity is ultra-densified condo towers with thousands of identical 250 sqft cubicles so we can all huddle together and bike to service jobs that don’t even let you see a lawn for the rest of your life?
Would it also include 10+ billion people by 2050 Mr Planet Killer?
Non car transportation exists, trains will get your goods to the store but vastly more efficiently. But you’re probably baiting anyway you car brained hyper individualist dweeb
you car brained hyper individualist dweeb
It’s really got nothing to do with individualism.
And meanwhile, some European cities are implementing zero-emission zones for logistics (trucking and deliveries). It’s not all rail.
I’d love to see barts from the north end to the sound in my city. We have major streets that don’t need cars parked on it.
Let me guess, your ideal future for humanity is ultra-densified condo towers with thousands of identical 250 sqft cubicles so we can all huddle together and bike to service jobs that don’t even let you see a lawn for the rest of your life?
You’ve guessed wrong. I’m living in a (by US standards) high-density small European city right now. 95% of the time, everything I need is within walking or cycling distance. Public transport works well for the remainder. I’m living in a 1500-square-foot house, as are most of my neighbors. There’s grass and trees outside, and a river. Neighbor kids are playing outside. I don’t work in a service job. So go ahead and have your shit hemorrhage if you want, but if you ever become interested in facts, come and see how real people are living right now.
Would it also include 10+ billion people by 2050 Mr Planet Killer?
That’s an unrelated problem. Only a fool assumes that there’s only a single workable solution. And only a worse fool assumes that the existing arrangement is the only possible one.
Is it that controversial to want sidewalks?
