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.
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.
Nah, these are part of whatever restaurant is across the sidewalk. That does sound nice, but hasn’t been my experience with them. I haven’t eaten at all of them though, that’s for sure.
Ah the New York Post… hate filled right wing rag.
Zohran Mamdani seems like an actually good person. I hope I don’t regret saying this.
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?
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
car-hating activist
Oh boy, here we go. 🤣
Yeah, that’s some interesting framing to say the least.
LETS
FUCKIN
GOOOOOOO
HA HA
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.
Hell yeah. Conscript me for this shit, we going netherlands on new years on those smelly fucks.
For those who are unaware: https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/02/record-number-car-fires-new-years-eve-highest-total-rotterdam
Lmao the New York fuckin Post
More of this please, I want NYPOST in tears every single day.
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
🤣 “War on Drivers”. Thanks NY Post, I needed a laugh
So what’s the problem?
