Media is just the mouthpiece for the rich and it shows.

HA HA

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.

Is that picture real? It looks like it should be a KenM post, talking about the very normal-looking restaurant shack instead of the prominent pile of un-binned garbage.

I would take these over franchises any day!

None of those were freestanding food places, they were simply an outside dining area for places that already had inside dining areas that nobody wanted to uses during Covid. Those little seating booths were necessary during Covid, when nobody wanted to be trapped in sealed rooms with other strangers, but their usefulness has passed, and we are left with the problems.

For one thing, they took away parking spaces, which are already extremely scarce. Secondly, because they are slightly raised, they made for a perfectly safe little living space for vermin under the floorboards. Thirdly, none of them were built with any kind of permits or regulations, and they were getting run down and poorly maintained, and that was only going to get worse. Finally, they're only useable for only about half the year anyway.

They were kind of neat during Covid, when everyone was trying anything they could to keep their businesses operating, and the government was willing to look the other way for a change, but those times have passed, and these things have become more trouble than they're worth any more.

@CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.

Furnas previously served 8 years in the New York City Mayor’s Office

The scaremongering is strong with this newspaper!

Yeah, that's some interesting framing to say the least.

Right here.

https://thewaroncars.org/

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!

I hope Mamdani frames one of those bad boys and hangs it on his office door.

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.

Is this pic really real?

Solution: become a Bikeshevik.

Well it’s the New York post which is basically a tabloid.

Nonetheless it gives Furnas free publicity.

This COMMUNIST thinks building PLAYGROUNDS will solve the LACK OF PLAYGROUNDS?! Gadzooks, what fooferaw! Communists are so silly! Let the free market provide playgrounds.

Goodness, this article was a pain to read.

The NY Post is cancer. Anyone who works there should seriously reconsider their life choices.

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

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?

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.

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.

The Post? They probably all live on Staten.

TL;DR: They are stupid and selfish.

People like that would rather sit in two hours of traffic and risk a parking ticket than take a subway for 30-45min. They specifically hate the very idea of public transport and they can’t even understand that public transit can be expanded without any disruption but infrastructure expansion for the personal vehicle requires insane amounts of destruction and disruption for incredibly little gain which is cancelled out by induced demand within a year.

In Montréal I know that driving is “faster”* but I still refuse to and leave my car parked. It’s just better, but I can also handle a small amount of walking outside and I’m not such a little baby that I feel immasculated by the metro system.

*It’s faster when Google Maps applies the longest wait and transfer times, and if there’s no traffic, and if you don’t account for warming up your car and then finding parking at your destination and then walking from your car to where you were trying to go.

I was there last weekend, and some group was doing some sort of truck cruise. I first noticed “hey look at those idiots trying to drive full sized pickups in Manhattan traffic”. Then I realized the noise wasn’t just a bad muffler, but intentional.

I ended up seeing dozens, several light cycles, and they kept going well past midnight. Loud enough to be annoying from my 23rd floor hotel room

Reminds me of how they were using that same tactic for hit pieces about the congestion pricing a year ago.

How many politicians can you name that went on a hunger strike for over 1 week, to be in solidarity with poor people?

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.

Yeah. I love how Murderdoch is eating his hat.

I swear, it reads like poison pen articles every time.

NYPost does not care about what their readers think. Their only job is to push a certain agenda. It is a propaganda rag.

Cars feel like a great solution to a relatively niche problem that got forcibly applied to several other problems for the sake of money.

Cars are fine. Car dependence is not. If you say something broad like "cars might just have been our worst idea" someone will simply point to the cases where it's unambiguously helpful such as ambulances, fire trucks, etc. and dismiss you entirely - along with dismissing the idea of walkable cities

"Transportation = Cars" in the usa apparently

Driving cars for a senior with 60+ years old can be life threatening too. If they crash, they end up in traction or perhaps even die.

Heck even walking can be life threatening, if they get hit by a car while crossing the street, they could die.

3 and 4 wheel bikes do exist. Driving for a senior 60+ is also life threatening, for them and others.

60 isn't that old. My grandpa turned 85 and rides 50+ miles a week, he hasn't fallen since he loves somewhere where cars can't run him over.

In Amsterdam, seniors and those with disabilities can drive tiny cars (like the Japanese Kei cars, I think) on bike paths. They have the protection they need for their health issues, they go slow so their slowed reaction times aren't a safety risk to themselves and others on a regular car road, and they have full access to groceries and medical appointments and social visits. Win-win.

If there is somebody who can’t walk, can’t bike, and can’t take alternative transit options (eg, disability-supported shuttle, or plain buses) I do not see a car as a solution for them and would be worried about their driving cohesion.

The handicap argument has been tried against walkable city infrastructure for a long time. It’s a terrible dog whistle; the pressure to use a car to get everywhere is hurtful to the disabled as well as the rest of us.

dystrophy

I think you mean atrophy.

I know plenty of people who bike at 60+. If you’ve biked for years it’s no more dangerous than it is for anyone else.

There's a huge difference between personal behavior and policy. I'd rather see politicians who, while flawed in their personal lives, improve the lives of their constituents, than saints who sell out to the highest bidder.

But I suspect your snark does not come from a place of good faith, which is why you resort to cheap ad hominem attacks.

I would hope they do, unless there's some work thing that takes them out of the city into bumfuck nowhere - which I can't imagine what that is.

Prefacing my comment with, as always, "I'm a car guy", I'll say this: Cities are not the place for cars, and NYC is fucking amazing for being carless, at least when I visited. It could of course be even way better, and as I understand, that's what Mamdani's trying to do.

We have better cities for public transit and walking here in Europe, but in terms of North America, I think NYC is one of the best.

Isn't that the whole point? That's how transport works in functional cities.