Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities. This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes.
@BillAckman No one knows how close we are from the breaking point but economic, financial and social resilience is not infinite. Billionaires loath to pay taxes will look back on this time of calm and wonder why they fought so hard to take care of a society that afforded them so much.
Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.
I had the privilege of touring the newly rehabilitated East River Tunnel 1, which took 13 months, on time and on budget, to go from a 115-year-old tunnel to one that’s state of the art. Our country still has the capacity to build amazing things.
At what point do we admit that building highways through the center of our cities was a failed experiment?
Our streets in Atlanta are insanely clogged because some folks 70 years ago thought it was a good idea. It wasn’t .
Let’s tear them out and move on.
A person has never seen an avocado. You hand it to them expecting them to visualize guac dip. Not gonna happen.
You send out community surveys asking residents to give their opinions on transportation systems, but the average person has no idea what's possible.
The average person isn't spending their lunch break reading case studies on how dynamic pricing for on-street parking, for example, is good for business owners and residents who live near a commercial district.
People default to the status quo because it feels safe, and there's no perceived loss. But if you lead with something like "Should people be charged for parking on Main Street?" of course the overwhelming majority will say no.
First help people see what's possible. (Teach them.) Then ask for opinions.
@histories_arch Was so smooth that Article II was written so loosely that a corrupted Congress and subservient Supreme Court would allow a tyranny 250 years later.