“Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels.” – as if traffic isn’t already hellish in NYC and in every other major city on the planet.

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  • xlf42@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    In carbrains… well… brains, it’s the car haters fault that traffic jams exist in the first place. YoU jUsT wOuLd NeEd To BuIld ThIs OnE aDdItIoNaL lAnE!!!

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        13 hours ago

        That’s part of what makes this tweet confusing to me.

        If EMS response times in NYC were really hamstrung by traffic (they’re generally not, the biggest bottle neck is actually staffing) that would be an instance where the “one more lane” types would have a point.

        NYC has America’s best public transit options, probably the strongest anti-congestion policy in the country, and the steepest financial penalties for driving in. But their EMS response time is like 2 minutes slower than LA which has more cars, more lanes, newer roads, and less public transit.