Improving the city will erase the city's identity as a bad place. This is bad, actually.
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You jest, but I've seen this used once by a NIMBY on an online forum. I was discussing how California is prime real estate and by refusing to build, that's just begging for a housing crisis. Their response?
"We can't build or else we will double in population." as if California is intentionally sucking to scare people off. You want to alienate people? California's social equality is more than enough to alienate 99.999% of the population AND it does a fine job in gatekeeping people who don't matter.
or else we’ll double in population
I strongly suspect the person saying this would be ok with the population doubling if it was all white ppl
Kill the journalist in your head. No you don't need to both sides everything.
"...unless they have to."
Fuck them I guess. I hate cars so goddam much
Cars the worst part of a city
Hard to find parking, hard to get around, hard to get in and out of the city, more expensive to own and maintain, people who drive in cities are more stupid and drive more stupidly and recklessly.
The guys who get upset about this are the ones who allergic to turn signals and going less than 70mph
Also they're loud. Cities would be way quieter without so many cars around and it would just be nicer
The air wouldn't smell so foul either.
Doing the right-wing "Aktuly I identify as an attack helicopter" bit but I'm identifying as an SUV-merican and its racist not to build six extra lanes of traffic and 5000 new oversized parking spaces in downtown.
It's a cultural genocide against car culture! They are forcing people into trains, buses and bikes against their will! Some of them actually have to walk more than the length of a typical parking lot. How many will die under this authoritarian regime of anti-car tyranny!?!?!
You know who else also forced people into trains?
HUNTER BIDEN!
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Los Angeles
Christopher LeGras of Keep LA Moving believes that not only will Measure HLA make traffic worse, it will also make streets less safe.
He lives in Santa Monica where last year the city repaved part of Ocean Avenue, turning it into a “blank slate of asphalt.”
“And I realized this is the safest street in LA, right? Because when there’s no bollards and stripes and green lanes and parked cars and all this other stuff, I can see that cyclist four blocks ahead of me.”
And I realized this is the safest street in LA, right?
Vibes are more powerful than statistics.
"Honey, where's all the furniture?"
"I sold it! I was tired of slamming into the coffee table at high speeds because the couch and curtains made it impossible to see."
I fucking swear, how come these fucks get to live in California and I'm stuck in a flyover red state? It sounds like both of us would be happier if we switched places. I'd fucking love the shit out of Santa Monica.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot..."
For real, though, beautiful weather, endless opportunities to get outside, and all these fucks want to do is put down more asphalt so they can spend an hour trying to go five miles.
Measure could change how the city designs and builds transportation infrastructure.
Ok, that's what every urban planner intends to do since the dawn of time, but okay.
Change the city's identity as a sprawling metropolis built for cars - where everybody drives and nobody walks, bikes, or takes the bus unless the had to.
: "You want CHOICES in how you get around?? WhAt ArE wE a BuNcH oF aSiAnS!?!?!?"
Literally NO ONE likes car culture, dumbass. Why do you think SF and NYC and Seattle all have their housing crisis? EVERYONE in the fucking country wants to live there. These boring fucks keep trying to sell the boonies to millennials and gen Z, so why not they take their own advice and go move to a flyover shithole? Carbrain NIMBYs sound like they'll be much happier there.
I feel like that line is tongue-in-cheek, the article's clowning on car brains.
Me trying to fill in the last 20 words in a 500 word essay
diet and exercise can improve your health and appearance, but that would ruin your identity as an unfuckable slob
The only decent car culture thing is Truck Nuts, and we can slap those bad boys on busses.
That would rule
Oh noes!
The city was built for the cars. That's what it exists for. The people only exist so that the cars can move around their town
guess the city
LA?
Yep
I think it's neat to be able to walk. Cars on the streets and all are cool but cities are boring without pedestrians.
One of the biggest cities in the USA, where the weather is perfect year round. That was designed and built up within the last 80 years around cars - it wasn't designed for horses or walking and there should be plenty of room for bike lanes.
Why wouldn't people want to ride bikes or commute via streetcar or bus? Hell, they could build one of those flat escalators that they have in airports and it would be usable 95% of the time.
Imagine if in the 40s the city planners of LA weren't racist, there could be a sweet network of bike paths going under, over, and alongside roads linking every part of the city. Instead these losers want to cater a major metropolitan area to the operators of mechanical deathboxes.
Plenty of Angelinos want good urban transport, but they're not backed by commercial real estate interests and aren't whining loudly online about it every day.
Have you considered that doing literally anything to improve myself might compromise my identity as a family annihilator who sleeps in medical waste bins?