The iron law of urban politics: Not every elected official who rides transit will be a good elected official. But every good elected city official will ride transit.
The iron law of urban politics: Not every elected official who rides transit will be a good elected official. But every good elected city official will ride transit.
Yea, I underestimated the car dependency once again. Being “so poor they have to take public transit” is a crazy sentence to me. Our highest executive politicians, the Bundesräte (the left/green moreso than the right ones) regularly ride on public transport, in the more expensive 1. Class, and they expect not to be disturbed.
I mean its a swiss thing as well. Roger Federer and Justin Biber can just stroll through a city and only rarely get bothered by people for selfies.
same thing with people in the US largely considering downtown to be where poor people live (aside from like, NYC), because basically the only affordable housing is the old apartment buildings that remain.