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WHY IS IT UNINHABITABLE NAZI BARBIE.
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I seriously hope you never have to wonder how you are getting to a place because you can’t navigate the transport options. Have you ever been to Amsterdam or Copenhagen? Do you know how physically small these beautiful walkable cities you’re using as examples are?
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Fuck off with putting words in my mouth. I never said car first. I said it is one of the tools we need to incorporate.
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Great. Go design a walkable city from scratch. Im living in reality. You aren’t retrofitting NYC. 99% of the corporate jobs are in Manhattan. Huge SPRAWLING areas of the boroughs are residential with no services in walkable distance. You gonna kick ppl out of their home to build a grocery store?
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Where was I talking about congestion pricing? Now you are just pissing me off with your ableist shit. Cars are never going away short of blowing up NYC & starting over or cutting off portions of the population based on their physical ability or geographic location in NYC from being able to travel.
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I support more bike lanes. I cant ride a bike & will never short of medical miracle but I know bike lanes are one tool to use to improve NYC. Ignoring the needs of all NYers is cruel. Balance will always be the way forward. I balance subways w/ car travel. Others dont need cars. Some cant use trains
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It’s telling that disabled people can scream from the roof tops all the reasons why NYC will always need cars & you people are like “but buses”. Great if it works for you. It’s not a one size fits all answer. No one said bulldoze apartments for parking lots. Thoughtful designs use space well.
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The bus isn’t slower because of traffic. You are also totally ignoring all the valid reasons previously discussed for why cars are just one of the modes of transportation around our city. The examples people point to as car free are centralized dense centers. NYC isn’t that.
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Why are we policing the term sprawling now? If it takes someone 30 mins or more to use public transportation to get to a food store but 5 minutes driving, adding more buses isn’t the convenient fix. To get to school I had a 1 hour subway ride or 15 minute car pool. Cars are apart of the city fabric.
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All I see are a bunch of suckers and losers.
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Literally every borough except Manhattan is sprawling. But even Manhattan is larger than every single car free city center in Europe.
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A Dem underperformance in a blue state? Is there something specific about the candidates that played a hand here? Local Dems just not show up? Hard to think Independents/non MAGA GOP is engaged or supporting GOP candidates right now.
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Gift article: wapo.st/43DKuRC
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Team “bad economic vibes” is about to throw is off a cliff now. Or at least the team the bad economic vibes folks decided to put into office.
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There are also more positive ways to address car overcrowding. Ban oversized vanity vehicles by high registration fees. Set a car limit per household unless for justifiable needs for like work/accessiblity. But new housing having a required number of parking spots would only help these issues.
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I never said don’t agitate for improvements I just think where to put cars is also an important topic to address not exclude. We can’t pretend many NYC residents aren’t car dependent. Here many are turning 2 fams to 3or4 fams. If even 1 of those extra families need a car, where do they go?
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Most do but only space for 1 or 2 chairs. The biggest issue is wide swaths of residential areas have no public transport options or buses/trains that only run for peak hours. Even able bodied people can’t take a bus that doesn’t exist. We can’t just pretend cars aren’t apart of NYC infrastructure
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But they aren’t the size & sprawl of NYC. You talk about all the places you’d want to go. Have you tried living with one leg & lupus? All the places you’d want to go, need a car. Met game? Car. Natural History museum? Car. Broadway, maybe a train, but a cab after show when your train isn’t running.
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NYC is never going to be Detroit It’s also never going to be Amsterdam. We need a plan that acknowledges the role cars & public transportation plays together here. We can’t wave a wand & make the city less dependent on cars. So infrastructure & new housing need to plan for that synergistic existence
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Maybe it’s improved in the past 6 years. But when the person I lived with was dependent on Access-a-Ride, they would not show up or be too late to make their appointment 30% of the time. I don’t call that reliable. For critical appointments I made myself available to drive them, not risk it.
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The closest grocery store to me is a 20 minute walk or a bus ride that only runs once an hour on Sundays. This city is not the public transportation utopia we pretend it is. In fact, we just lost the closest bus to us in a rerouting plan. The train is also a 15 minute walk and doesn’t run on Sunday
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You sound like someone who has never had to circle for two hours around their home just looking for parking. There’s no reason this city can’t build more housing, and the plans for that housing has to include parking. Especially accessible parking.
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Do you know how many medical offices are in Manhattan that elderly people or Disabled folks need to travel to on a regular basis? Cars are the most efficient transport option for some ppl. Large parts of the other boroughs are not easily accessible via subway or bus but those ppl need to get around.
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I also don’t agree with removing parking space minimums. Like it or not, we are a cars based city/society. They aren’t going to go away, so we should plan for how to make life better with cars in the picture. But we don’t have to agree perfectly with politicians and also, he’s not Cuomo.
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So, do protesters in LA have those same gun rights? Or just wannabe brownshirts walking around in masks and body armor?
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Hey even a broken clock is right twice a day. Has anyone told him whenever they find the professional agitators they are white & maga?
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I don’t think we should be excited about this. You denaturalize one person, no one is safe.
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I know plenty of German Americans who talk about that being part of their culture. Even participating in “Reenactments”. Never mind the objects collecting. Maybe it’s something about Americans? Do we just suck?
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Why isn’t this persons’ declining mental faculties a 24/7 news story.
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As someone who watched the towers fall from a high school classroom, next to kids who knew their parents were in there, Fuck. And I can’t stress this part enough, These Assholes.
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Sorry for the times I defended her. Clearly some people are just trash.
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For the record, Disney is still the media sponsor at NYC & even in this article it points out they sponsored a marching group at this parade like they do at other celebrations. There is still a strong DEI department working to support many employee resources & many pride events internally & publicly
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Literally just got the email today to sign up for their sponsored section of the NYC Pride March, sent from two DEI department execs, so I’m unclear where he got this list from. Unless there were other celebrations they are not apart of. Big one planned at NYC headquarters though.
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Cool. I’m just gonna bring attitude to work and expect a 4% raise by the end of summer.
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Idiocracy but they closed all the Fuddruckers around here so we don’t even get to enjoy the quality burgers at Buttfuckers.
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If we give them this special economic zone and let them all move there, what are the odds Elon blows them all up too?
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Does he not know about how many German Nazis, I mean emigrés built our space program?