“White Female Mamdani”?

Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.

Daily Mail is pure garbage.

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        3 months ago

        Viscount Rothermere

        Had to look up if that’s someone’s name or what. It’s Harold Hamsworth, owner and founder of the Daily Mail and unapologetic racist, elitist, nazi piece of shit.

        It’s crazy to me that people like this were still allowed to own newspapers after the war. You don’t have to put them against the wall, but you can at least take away their power.

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          3 months ago

          If they took it away from him that would be egregious censorship. If the Morning Star can publish, so can the Daily Heil.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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    3 months ago

    Unfortunately, adding a bus lane does little when drivers fill it up anyways. Unless there’s strict enforcement (doubtful), it’ll just be another traffic lane

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      3 months ago

      They are doing that crap where I live, taking away a car lane for a bike lane. I’ve seen 2 people use it in a two years, not kidding. It’s utter bullshit.

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        3 months ago

        This is a common optical illusion with bike lanes. Bicycles are a lot smaller than cars and are 100x less likely to encounter traffic congestion, so bicycle traffic always looks much lighter than a similar number of cars.

        The only way to be certain about traffic numbers is to do a traffic survey, where you actually go and count the traffic amount during rush hour.

        Heres an example of a traffic counter where bicycle traffic looks a lot lighter than it actually is.

        https://youtu.be/3F_B0HtewDU

        Also, even if a bike lane is underutilized, it is often a first step towards a proper bike network. Once a bike network reaches a critical mass, the traffic grows exponentially as people feel safe biking and new kinds of business is enabled by bicycle transport.

        In countries like the Netherlands it is very rare to build a road WITHOUT a bike path, and I think that should be the standard. We should be asking why it didn’t have a bike lane when the road was first built.

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          3 months ago

          That bike lane looks so cramped tho. Why not take both the bike lane and the pedestrian walkway and merge them into one wide bike+pedestrian road (still keeping it physically separate from the car lanes of course)? So much comfier, easier on the eyes, and you don’t have to make bike traffic one way so cyclists don’t have to cross the street just to go in the direction they need to. I’d feel so cramped cycling there, like how do I even pass people with any real speed without jumping onto the raised pedestrian bit? They could just swerve in front of me and there’s nowhere to go in the bike lane.

          I’ll add an example from my country. Bikes and pedestrians have plenty of space and cars aren’t cramped either. There’s a marked pedestrian lane and bike lane, but since they’re not physically divided, it’s easy to temporarily use the pedestrian side for overtaking if necessary. This road in Montreal doesn’t really need the divider between car lanes since speeds there are likely to be quite low, that could be taken away to increase the width of the potential combined bike+pedestrian roads.

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              3 months ago

              The cyclist is going to be hurt just as much as the pedestrian if there’s a crash. Physical separation there makes it much more uncomfortable to use and an eyesore as well.

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        3 months ago

        Ah yes cuz adding more lanes totally gets rid of traffic Just one more lane man I gotta get just one more lane and ill be ok I swear

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    3 months ago

    I like how the title is unnecessarily long so that it can convey propaganda.

    Yes they need all those words just to convey that you should hate her.

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    3 months ago

    Please consider sharing achievements of Seattle mayor Katie Wilson rather than sharing the negativity and hateful propaganda of her critics.

    Anytime you share a thing you hate online, you are doing free marketing for them.

    You could instead ignore it and counterbalance with hope, optimism and successes.

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      3 months ago

      While I agree with you in general, there wasn’t a single thing in that headline I consider negative. As far as I’m concerned, it was all complimentary.

      (I know that was far from the author’s intentions, but that is genuinely what I think of it.)

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    3 months ago

    “Takes away lane of road from motorists” is a wild way to say “Created a bus lane”. These people need help.