The new plan would dedicate more of the road to motor vehicle travel and parking between Grove Hall and Mattapan Square, effectively creating a more car-friendly design.
I love Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, but this is some serious bullshit.
You won the election. It’s over. The pro-car asshole was defeated.
Now it’s time to be BOLD. Democracy is great, but enough with this public consultation non-sense. Real leadership means you need to accept to be temporarly unpopular. There is nothing wrong with data-driven expert management.
I don’t like Billionaires, but Mike Bloomberg was a great New York City mayor precisely because he didn’t give a shit about being popular as long as the data was on his side. He banned smoking in bars and restaurants, mandated calorie counts on chain restaurant menus, pedestrianized much of Times Square, created the Citi Bike Program, invested in bike lanes. Tabloids kept blaming him. He just ignored them. He was ahead of his times.
The mayor of Paris, Ms. Hidalgo, went that way - was elected and was thought to never ever get into a second term so she just went crazy sane on installing lots of bike friendly infrastructure and pushing cars out of their privileges…
Was voted into a second term after people realised how nice a city with lesser cars is. Turns out most people aren’t that crazy for the damages cars do to their city.
I love Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, but this is some serious bullshit.
You won the election. It’s over. The pro-car asshole was defeated.
Now it’s time to be BOLD. Democracy is great, but enough with this public consultation non-sense. Real leadership means you need to accept to be temporarly unpopular. There is nothing wrong with data-driven expert management.
I don’t like Billionaires, but Mike Bloomberg was a great New York City mayor precisely because he didn’t give a shit about being popular as long as the data was on his side. He banned smoking in bars and restaurants, mandated calorie counts on chain restaurant menus, pedestrianized much of Times Square, created the Citi Bike Program, invested in bike lanes. Tabloids kept blaming him. He just ignored them. He was ahead of his times.
The mayor of Paris, Ms. Hidalgo, went that way - was elected and was thought to never ever get into a second term so she just went
crazysane on installing lots of bike friendly infrastructure and pushing cars out of their privileges…Was voted into a second term after people realised how nice a city with lesser cars is. Turns out most people aren’t that crazy for the damages cars do to their city.
Is this even the masses or just a few loud idiots though?