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.

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.

A bio, so you don’t need to read the ridiculous NY post https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/profile/ben-furnas/

car-hating activist

Oh boy, here we go. 🤣

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.

nypost was so sour about mamdani's election that it lead to this masterpiece:

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.

Wow that was a horrible and very onesided article.

Bikelash

the negative and outsized reaction of car culture to change

1. Denial - "We will never be Amsterdam"
2. Anger - comes in many forms, from demonization of cyclists as reckless to TV hosts yelling at a mayor <-- this story is here
3. Bargaining - resort to last-ditch efforts, e.g. lawsuits
4. Depression - self explanatory
5. 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

https://www.lifeaftercars.com/

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.

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.

Why are we posting Murdock owned rags?

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

Best news I've seen all day!

The first time I went to NYC, car traffic was still allowed on Broadway between 46th and 47th in Times Square. Closing it off gave all these tourists somewhere to go and made crossing the street so much safer. It’s crazy to me that so much real estate was ceded to making the area 5% more convenient for drivers when the land was so much better used for pedestrians. NYC is already so walkable but I’d love to see it even less congested. No reason not to use the bus.

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.

Ah the New York Post... hate filled right wing rag.

Lmao the New York fuckin Post

NY Post is a Trump loving rag. Please don't give them clicks.

Zohran Mamdani seems like an actually good person. I hope I don't regret saying this.

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.

This is awesome. I hope he comes up with real solutions other cities can adopt to curb car creep into cities. My city is fairly progressive and I can promise city hall is watching what he does very closely.

🫡

Aren't cars notoriously evil in NYC?

Good!