Lmao the New York fuckin Post
Best news I’ve seen all day!
FWIW I don’t actually hate cars. It’s just hate angry drivers, pollution, danger to everybody from pedestrian to other drivers, noise, economical dependence, power imbalance, etc. The cars themselves are…
OK forget that, I’m a car hater too.
So what’s the problem?
it is funny because the editor of the article think this title is negative, while the one who voted for him are most likely looking at the title and saying “that is who I voted for”
One of the many stupid things about it is that generally speaking, most measures to reduce cars have the effect of making car travel more pleasant. It’s building tons of extra lanes that drives its own demand and makes driving slow and unpleasant.
You need to remember that the groups that push for this pro-car culture don’t represent the drivers, but the manufacturers.
They don’t care about the actual experience of driving - they only want to shit out as many new vehicles onto the road as possible.
Good, Mamdani and Furnas should only be allowed to use public transportation for work purposes, otherwise they’d be hypocrites right? 🤔
Isn’t that the whole point? That’s how transport works in functional cities.
There’s a huge difference between personal behavior and policy. I’d rather see politicians who, while flawed in their personal lives, improve the lives of their constituents, than saints who sell out to the highest bidder.
But I suspect your snark does not come from a place of good faith, which is why you resort to cheap ad hominem attacks.
Overall I agree with the push against cars in an extremely dense city. Emergency vehicles, public transportation, logistics trucks (delivery/moving/etc) should have priority. I also like it when people lead by example.
Who is leading by example in the U.S. at this point? You’re literally just preemptively bitching and villainizing about an idea that would genuinely improve lives. Maybe just shut the fuck up instead of being a doomer and give things a chance to work before railing against good ideas and declaring the people advocating for them as hypocrites. I’m so fucking sick of your specific brand of asshole anymore.
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I would hope they do, unless there’s some work thing that takes them out of the city into bumfuck nowhere - which I can’t imagine what that is.
Prefacing my comment with, as always, “I’m a car guy”, I’ll say this: Cities are not the place for cars, and NYC is fucking amazing for being carless, at least when I visited. It could of course be even way better, and as I understand, that’s what Mamdani’s trying to do.
We have better cities for public transit and walking here in Europe, but in terms of North America, I think NYC is one of the best.
Manhattan is far above any other us city on both walkability and transit. It’s the one place initiatives like this should be obvious and can succeed.
Meanwhile my city is one of the best in the us but far behind so I’m not sure I’d support such initiatives here. I did try a year without a car and it was mostly fine, and can only be much better now. We do have bus lanes for major routes now, fixed a lot of subways infrastructure and are building out bike lanes everywhere, but nothing like nyc. At the time I did feel like I still needed a car and wished there were options for long term storage, but that was before services like Uber/Lyft or short term rentals like ZipCar.
For the very long term, I have a lot of hope for the MBTA communities zoning law passed last year. Boston has long benefited from transit-based development, we have many pre-car towns with walkable centers, but now every town in the greater Boston area has transit-based development too!
DC? I thought DC transit was pretty amazing
Boston. Also pretty good transit, but nothing in the us compares to Manhattan for walkability and transit
Oh yeah, we walked around Manhattan and it was great. Nighttime was a lot fewer people than I would’ve thought for “the city that never sleeps”, but then we randomly stumbled upon some guys freestyle rapping near Union Square (if I recall correctly), found a super weird grocery store that sold us alcohol at like 11 PM (in my country it’s only legal to sell till 10 PM, after that only bars can serve and they can only serve open containers) (alcohol at 11 PM wasn’t the reason it was weird, it was just… very different from everything else I’d seen, including in the US, interesting vibe lol - if I remember correctly, they had tables outside where we consumed said beer, so it was kind of a bar AND a grocery store? But I may be remembering wrong here)
Brooklyn was also pretty nice to walk around. The buildings were much prettier, and we also found random places to visit. Somewhere in Williamsburg there was literally like a mini music festival vibe place in an alleyway. Like multiple tents to buy drinks and at least one stage. No noticeable signs pointing to it IIRC, just a person who sold us a ticket at the entrance of the alleyway.
Didn’t take much transit. Just the subway from our hotel near the airport to Manhattan or Brooklyn and then back at night. It worked fine, though wait times between trains were a bit longer than I’d expected for such a big city.
I love my car just the same as I love this post because I would despise driving in NYC
NY Post is a Trump loving rag. Please don’t give them clicks.
archive.today version of the url: https://archive.ph/MPReJ
basically the entire premise of this article is that he has the nerve to want to improve speed of the bus network and put parks and playgrounds on under utilised roads. the horror.
Trump hires anti-vaxer for US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mamdani hires car-hating activist for NYC transportation team. What’s next, some Priest as head of NASA?
If it’s so bad why could they only find Ms Rauch to complain about it? Seems like an article about a plan that’s hated by a lot of people would be able to find more than one lady to talk to.
Reminds me of how they were using that same tactic for hit pieces about the congestion pricing a year ago.
A bio, so you don’t need to read the ridiculous NY post https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/profile/ben-furnas/
Furnas previously served 8 years in the New York City Mayor’s Office
The scaremongering is strong with this newspaper!
@CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.
I appreciate that they linked to the actual transportation agenda, but when you look at the article and agenda side-by-side, it becomes really obvious how dishonest NY Post is being here
NY Post is outright lying about parks in the middle of streets. I get their biases, but shouldn’t they at least pretend to be honest?
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.
