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.
Media is just the mouthpiece for the rich and it shows.
LETS
FUCKIN
GOOOOOOO
HA HA
Good. Fuck car culture. Fuck the nypost too.
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.
It would be better to give the businesses and landlords some certainty and allow them to be built as a permanent structure. Add better trash holding infrastructure while they are at it.
I would take these over franchises any day!
nypost was so sour about mamdani’s election that it lead to this masterpiece:
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.
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
Is this pic really real?
yes it is
Oh my god! I’m speechless.
A bio, so you don’t need to read the ridiculous NY post https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/profile/ben-furnas/
Furnas previously served 8 years in the New York City Mayor’s Office
The scaremongering is strong with this newspaper!
car-hating activist
Oh boy, here we go. 🤣
Yeah, that’s some interesting framing to say the least.
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.
Right here.
I hadn’t been to nyc for several years until this past weekend and the difference with e-bikes really struck me. There are so many more bike lanes than there used to be, so many more people on their e-bikes than there used to be, and even some cargo e-bikes like Amazon delivery. Manhattan taking “the right road” to transportation! Keep on going!
Oh yeah, my point. Anywhere an e-bike or cargo bike can go, so can personal mobility for seniors. Now that we have bike lanes, let’s take the next lane for golf carts.
This was definitely my type of trip: grab a Dunks on the way out of the house, hop an Acela down to nyc, watch some hockey, walk around tourist areas, and hop the Acela back!
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.
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.
They’re trying to claim the playgrounds will be in the middle of the street. They even post a picture of an obviously poorly designed playground in between streets to associate the two ideas
This is despite the fact the whole point of closing low traffic streets to make a playground and cul de sac is so we don’t have to put a playground in a literal street
It’s propaganda, plain and simple
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.
Ban cars throughout the entire city. Delivery vehicles at night time only. Let the rich return to the ancient ways. To separate themselves from the rabble, they’ll be carried around in sedan chairs like the rich fat bastards of yore.
Best news I’ve seen all day!
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
If possible I would avoid being anywhere densely populated in the Netherlands over New Years. The whole country loses their fucking minds, handing explosives to children as young as ten with the advice: “Go have fun in the street, kid”. Strangers shoot fireworks in every direction, at buildings, into the canals, at random strangers just trying to get to shelter.
When I lived there, my girlfriend and I would always book a holiday well out of town on NYE. It’s insane, and not in a fun way.
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.
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?
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
I’d love to see barts from the north end to the sound in my city. We have major streets that don’t need cars parked on it.
Is it that controversial to want sidewalks?
Lmao the New York fuckin Post
