I’m so sick and tired of reading ‘oh, New York City busses are the slowest,'” slammed Stacey Rauch, a Murray Hill resident who takes the bus every day and argues the problem is the lack of busses – not the fact they’re slowed down by cars.
(Emphasis mine)
This may be the dumbest quote in the whole dumb article.
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.
Good!
You guys should email the NYPost and show your disappointment. Maybe, if enough people emailed them and showed them how you, the readers, do not agree with the way they do things, they would change it.
Obligatory: fuck cars. I am of the opinion that cars might just have been our worst idea.
NYPost does not care about what their readers think. Their only job is to push a certain agenda. It is a propaganda rag.
Whoosh
Cars feel like a great solution to a relatively niche problem that got forcibly applied to several other problems for the sake of money.
Still, email them. Preferable the writers themselves as well. Show them your disappointment. Tell them they are actively worsening society. Ask them how they can sleep at night. Make a good argument.
I love my car just the same as I love this post because I would despise driving in NYC
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.
Dogshit title.
The NY Post is a dogshit tabloid.
Oh yes, that planet-killing infrastructure that allows your groceries to be delivered to your store.
Let me guess, your ideal future for humanity is ultra-densified condo towers with thousands of identical 250 sqft cubicles so we can all huddle together and bike to service jobs that don’t even let you see a lawn for the rest of your life?
Would it also include 10+ billion people by 2050 Mr Planet Killer?
Let me guess, your ideal future for humanity is ultra-densified condo towers with thousands of identical 250 sqft cubicles so we can all huddle together and bike to service jobs that don’t even let you see a lawn for the rest of your life?
You’ve guessed wrong. I’m living in a (by US standards) high-density small European city right now. 95% of the time, everything I need is within walking or cycling distance. Public transport works well for the remainder. I’m living in a 1500-square-foot house, as are most of my neighbors. There’s grass and trees outside, and a river. Neighbor kids are playing outside. I don’t work in a service job. So go ahead and have your shit hemorrhage if you want, but if you ever become interested in facts, come and see how real people are living right now.
Would it also include 10+ billion people by 2050 Mr Planet Killer?
That’s an unrelated problem. Only a fool assumes that there’s only a single workable solution. And only a worse fool assumes that the existing arrangement is the only possible one.
Is it that controversial to want sidewalks?
Non car transportation exists, trains will get your goods to the store but vastly more efficiently. But you’re probably baiting anyway you car brained hyper individualist dweeb
you car brained hyper individualist dweeb
It’s really got nothing to do with individualism.
And meanwhile, some European cities are implementing zero-emission zones for logistics (trucking and deliveries). It’s not all rail.
But … but … they need to sell cars, so they can get more taxes, so they can build more roads, so things are further apart and people need cars … so they can sell more cars …
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.
Goodness, this article was a pain to read.
The NY Post is cancer. Anyone who works there should seriously reconsider their life choices.
This COMMUNIST thinks building PLAYGROUNDS will solve the LACK OF PLAYGROUNDS?! Gadzooks, what fooferaw! Communists are so silly! Let the free market provide playgrounds.
it is funny how low they are willing to go, not even journalistic integrity is stopping them anymore. should have the name of the writer out there and his twitter account so they can be shamed on public. If this is an actual person and not fake name or AI.
NY Post is a Trump loving rag. Please don’t give them clicks.
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.
Why are we posting Murdock owned rags?
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.
Really? How so? I’ve wanted to visit for decades; I haven’t been scared, just poor 😅
Have a look at this short video of some streets “before and after”. Hidalgo (the mayor) has given Paris a complete makeover. People are swimming in the Siene again!
Paris did the same thing Mamdani wants to do in NYC: Turn roads into green spaces and pedestrian paths/bikeways and make it much easier to get around without a car. While the people there were at first unsure about it and complained, they’ve been really happy with it now that it’s proven itself to be beneficial. The air is cleaner, and the streets are safer and far less congested. It’s totally transformed Paris.
That sounds great. I’m really happy for Paris!
Good news: its going to become much more affordable soon. Rent freezes, free busses, $30 minimum wage…
This article reads like satire, they’re so mad
I swear, it reads like poison pen articles every time.
nypost was so sour about mamdani’s election that it lead to this masterpiece:
New york post going full onion parody of itself. Might as well have batboy on the front page.
God, that’s hot. I want this.
I need to put stuff up on my walls, and this is actually something that I would put up as artwork
I hope Mamdani frames one of those bad boys and hangs it on his office door.
He should have the city seize the means of production. Specifically, seize the NY Post. Turn it into an actually useful news source.
Accurately rename it the NY Dumpster but change nothing else about it.
Is this pic really real?
yes it is
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.
