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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.
the negative and outsized reaction of car culture to change
Source:
Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek
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?
car-hating activist
Oh boy, here we go. 🤣
LETS
FUCKIN
GOOOOOOO
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.
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
More of this please, I want NYPOST in tears every single day.
Lmao the New York fuckin Post
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
Good. Fuck car culture. Fuck the nypost too.
Best news I've seen all day!
So what's the problem?
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.
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.
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......
Nonetheless it gives Furnas free publicity.
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