concerned_newyorker t1_j30g0nw wrote on January 5, 2023 at 4:56 AM

Reply to comment by HEIMDVLLR in Traffic study by former head of NYC DOT reveals what he says is ultimate cause of congestion by HEIMDVLLR

Your belief is a fact. TransAlt took lot of donations from uber and lyft and suddenly all city council clowns are singing ban cars while literally video conferencing from backseat of taxpayer funded chauffeured cars. They are also paying lot of influencers on social media and thinktanks to push this urbanism car free cities narrative on twitter. Lot of it also has to do with suburban transplants who grew up with car culture in ohio so they hate cars but most of us immigrants and city dwellers who grew up in poor countries and been traveling in trains and buses and riding bikes since childhood know that cars improve standard of living and take you places nothing else can in any part of the world.

The goal of lyft and modern luxury condominium developers is to eliminate car ownership to take away streets for building more luxury condos and increase lyft and citibike dependency. they have already increased citibike annual fee to over $200 which i think is ridiculous as you can own a bike for $200.

lemming-leader12 t1_j30hyu8 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 5:13 AM

Just because public transportation is used by poor people in America and the experience isn't that great doesn't mean that public transportation isn't used by everyone in other affluent countries. It's a pretty bad argument to just say that cars are better because poor people use public transportation or that cars are better because it's a socioeconomic upgrade for people on an individual level. None of that matters and frankly most of the things you mention don't even relate to eachother, like Lyft being in cahoots with luxury condo developers to to build more condos and increase citibike dependency? Lmao what? Like yeah man Citibank or Lyft or whatever is really trying to change the American fabric of transportation for its bike schemes, fuck banking or rideshares it's totally biking where the real profits are. I like not needing a car ever, the subway is the greatest thing and it only exists in NYC when it comes to America.

And miss me with that poor people shit because I grew up taking the bus in California, that shit sucks ass but I'm not dumb enough to think the problem is the bus when it's the fact that everything was A. designed for a car my family could not afford. and B. A lack of beefed up public transportation options.

09-24-11 t1_j34au3m wrote on January 5, 2023 at 11:12 PM

Not disagreeing with you but just acknowledging the irony here. In 1956 the Highway Lobby (funded by the automobile industry) fought and won in DC to transition funds from building public transportation to building highways. The very same negative feeling you are having (big industry is funneling money to politicians to ultimately benefit big industry) already happened on this topic, just in the reverse order.

History is written by the Victors.