They said Mamdani wasn’t experienced enough either. Experience doesn’t matter when you’ve done nothing noteworthy with all your supposed “experience”.
But I’ve been failing to do my job for decades! Clearly, this is better than someone who hasn’t gotten the opportunity to try yet!
Every city needs to be doing this.
Affordable gasoline is a thing of the past. Affordable cars are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Soon, the $7 minimum wage will be older than the newest generation of voters, and no one in Congress is honestly considering passing a living wage.
Bikes, e-scooters, walking, and public trans are going to be essential in the coming years.
We will witness the rise of the Taxi Cash Conduit. They do not exist as a human being - simply a process by which oil is burnt by the demands of capitalism.
The oil is burned to extract more oil, which is then used in the Uber driver’s car. The driver pays exactly as much in gas costs as he charges for rides. He does not eat, and he sleeps in that car. When it breaks, he breaks. The passenger would just walk, but the city was built to specifically punish non-riders.
The uber driver and passenger will each get one free ride a year, for the specific purpose of driving to city hall to vote against a bike lane.
Affordable cars are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
I’m afraid that’s not true. As in, literally, I’m scared that that’s not true. BEVs are only getting cheaper over time, as they’ve only recently been mass-produced at anything approaching the absurd scale of ICE car production, and because li-ion/sodium-ion batteries basically didn’t exist before the 90s and were 100x more expensive 20 years ago.
Once everyone switches to electric, that will only further encourage car-centric development.
It’s such a glaring flaw when you visit LA. You’d think a city that fixated on its image would improve transit just to save face if nothing else. Car culture is a beast.
Something I think more people need to mention about public transportation is, it’s not about being against cars, but being for more options. For instance, many of us have elderly parents or grandparents who are too old to drive anymore, so they must rely on friends and family to get around despite being perfectly healthy to walk. But if they have reliable and close by public transportation options, they could retain their locomotive liberty much longer into their twilight years, and the same could be true for all of us as we get older.
I’ve talked to a lot of people in Los Angeles about why they don’t use public transit. The #1 answer I get is that people don’t feel safe, especially women.
I’m glad Raman is also prioritizing housing, because nothing in our city can get better until housing does. Everything nice we build will be filled with people trying to sleep safely until they have somewhere else to go. If someone wouldn’t sleep in a shelter, then why would they suggest someone else sleeps in a shelter?
