“White Female Mamdani”?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
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The author might as well join the Fascist Party at this point. Forget dogwhistles, bro bonged the whole structure down. Along with the bell.
It’s the Daily Mail, I’m pretty sure they’re already there
Female Mamdani is a very strangrle way to say Mamdani’s wife.
Female Mamdani is a very strangrle way to say Mamdani’s wife.
That’s a strange way of saying that
That also aren’t Mamdani’s wife.
Why do some people never understand that viable alternatives to cars make life better for drivers too.
Oh right, it’s because they don’t want to understand.
good in her, my IQ was lowered a little more reading that screenshots though.
I legit thought this was in the shitpost community reading that headline lmao
The GOP’s worst insult was comparing her to the coolest mayor in recent memory. over a bus lane.
lol
she’s clearly way cooler than Mandani
Well, Seattle has a more temperate climate than New York City
And I don’t know if it’s possible to add more bus lanes to NYC
It’s just a tactic used to associate politicians on the left in a negative way. The article isn’t for you. It’s for the Fox News boomers.
I do think that its not working nearly well as it use to in the past. But it’s just the new “AoC” that they have programmed their audience into hating.
But, it’s really hard to hate Mamdani. Which is why they’ve mostly tried to just stop talking about him in most cases.
Mamdani had a sex & race change? Fair enough.
No silly, this is just his crime fighting alter ego
They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.
Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she… Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don’t get how these people think that’s such a bad thing.
Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people “that haven’t worked hard enough for it.” They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that “its for the poors.”
Oh I know their logic. I just don’t get their logic cause it’s fucking dumb.
The Daily Heil is super reliable, let’s put it like that.
In one line I got:
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She’s comparable to current rockstar mayor
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She fixed bus service
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She hersekf uses bus service
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She noticed a problem and fixed it
To give more history about this route, there is a annual “race the 8!” event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it. Folks have beat it juggling, waling backwards, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.
I agree with everything you say until the end. It’s disingenuous to say that residents do not take the highway. It runs through the middle of the city! We all take the damn highway.
Ehh, way more residents take or would take that bus then would use that on ramp. Its mainly an ingress point to the freeway for people who commute.
The ramp isnt even closing, its just being sanely re-routed to not cause such a clusterfuck.
It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.
- She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary, but wisely chooses to ride the bus because of its many benefits to society
If you’ve been to downtown Seattle you know why people don’t drive there.
Traffic? The worst intersections I’ve seen in the country? The fact that when you get there parking for an hour often costs more than a day pass for the train and bus?
Easy solution: just drive toward Denny & Stewart then get out of your car. By the time you’re back from whatever you were doing there you may be able to move forward a bit. Free parking!
I’m pretty sure that’s how people use the I5 in Seattle.
There is no “the I-5” north of California.
She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary
Definitely couldn’t before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.
Right, good article, she could couldn’t then but can now, yet she chooses not to in order to help the lives of regular people
Impeach her right now! The job of government officials is to enrich themselves at everybody else’s expense! Heresy!
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Daily Mail is GOP propaganda.
Wait, REALLY? Can you point me exactly in what part of that title can we see it being GOP propaganda?
/s
They had a bit of a pro Nazi thing going on in the run up to WW2…and other times of courss.
Well, it’s a UK publication, so I’m not sure that “GOP propaganda” is accurate.
They are, however, straight up fascist, so it does often align
FeMaLe
It’s not called The Daily Heil for nothing
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
Well . . . yeah
Isn’t Mamdani doing extremely well as mayor?
So isn’t this a compliment?
Only for people in reality. For people living in the right-wing corporate propaganda sphere, this is a sick burn.
Yes. But the right has basically stopped covering him since he met with Trump and tamed him with charisma.
So, they basically just bring him up to mean “communist that is going to destroy your city” because that’s where they left it. If they don’t cover him as actual governor then they can keep pretending he’s bad.
Pedantry warning
Mamdani is mayor (city level), not governor (state level).
Thanks. My brain definitely decides to reverse those often. Fixed it.
Bus lanes in my town are so extremely wasteful, they sit empty for 56 minutes every hour (if a bus passes once every 15 minutes). And are maybe sometimes used by taxi’s or the police. That’s it.
So the buses are running on time, thus offering a viable alternative to cars, and the reduced lane is reversing the induced demand for cars? Based as hell
Make places for people, not cars
So they’re be more efficient if we made buses travel at 0.1mph, so they’re be in the lanes more?
So emergency vehicles have a priority lane? Betcha that’s saved a few lives.
So you’re saying a bus, which on average can support a much larger volume of people than cars can, are running consistently on time, and the lanes are also providing routes that allow emergency responders (not just cops, remember that ambulances can use these lanes too) to get to where they’re going without having to wait in traffic as someone dies?
Not to mention that if the dedicated bus lanes didn’t exist, bus service could be slow/inconsistent enough that all the people riding the bus would just switch back to cars, and now you’ve got way more cars on the road clogging it up again.
Why would you think this is a problem?
Wasteful, or extremely efficient? The bus keeps moving. Meanwhile, each of the parked cars sits idle 95% of the day, taking up tons of valuable real estate.
Ahh, now i see why it’s called Daily Fail
Meanwhile Doug Ford and Ken Sim killing bike lanes to shave 30 seconds off theor personal commutes.
More like add 2 minutes due to increased congestion and lack of alternatives. All the studies done showed that the bike lanes actually improved travel times in most cases.
Yeah, true. Turns out that bike lanes can move more people in urban environments, and forcing bikes into car lanes will slow everyone down. WHO WOULDA THUNK
forcing bikes into car lanes
Maybe some. But also many former bikes become cars, which is what really adds to congestion.
AS NJB put it, bike lanes are car infrastructure. People like Doug Ford is just maximising suffering, considering how many of his policies is just to make Toronto worse, it could actually be the real goal.
But that would require thinking a little more than only about themselves. They are never part of the traffic, they’re special, everyone else are getting in their way.
‘Everyone else are’ seems to be correct as it’s a plural, but ‘everyone else is’ sounds better.
Any English teachers around to ask which is correct? The older I get, the less I seem to understand my own language.
“is” does sound better, but English isn’t my native language, so i cant really comment which is actually grammatically correct.
Your English is exceptional if it’s your second language.
Thank you.
