Yeah the more I look around the more I think he just occassionally marketed it that way, the overriding concern was city beautification and modernization with security being a tertiary concern at best.
That is rather paradoxical, isn't it? By creating these wide boulevards Paris gained a reputation for being a beautiful city (and it probably was back when actual French people lived there).
Those idyllic sidewalk cafes? Not possible with those medieval backroads.
I'm not sure he realizes there's no comeback to [how easy it is for drivers to navigate home] and he doesn't provide one.
That's why roads are great because you don't
need overly complex schedules and times and routes. If you've actually driven somewhere, even someplace you've never been to before, navigating is only like 5% of the issue, usually "get on Interstate 10 WEST (not East)", "exit Scarborough Road", and then navigating the last few miles.
Plus, they drop you off right at your house or at the very least a parking lot where you can hoof it no more than a block. The "last mile problem" continues to stump urbanists.
Manhattanites love to brag about their variety of businesses, but most of them cater to commuters and can't be supported solely by the local residents.
I know I already replied to this quote but wasn't Manhattan one of the hardest hit places in COVID?
I mean, besides the blue state lockdowns and anyone with money fleeing for the Hamptons, the hardest hit places of COVID were the places that relied on a lot of non-local patronage.
It makes sense—think about your town, if you actually looked at what restaurants closed down permanently, you could see trends start to emerge. If they relied on office commuters, the after-church crowd, the after-bars crowd, the student hangouts, anything that didn't have drive-up access (inside malls and pedestrian areas)...those were the ones that tended to be the most at-risk. It wasn't just blue areas being retarded, it was that the "urbanist" locations were the ones failing, especially if they were doing a marginal business before.
Jason complains about people asking why he only talks about the Netherlands and the US/Canada:
He really is a piece of shit. Almost everything he says is derived from Marohn or some other urbanist, and he DOES he use lots of stock footage. Sometime within the last month someone called him out for that and he just bitched about it as usual.
Also if you have an audience of over a million and the 'signal to noise' ratio is so bad you can't find good comments on your stuff, that means your fans are majority retarded.
There have been a few comments where they were positive, but asked a question he didn't like and he flipped out.
It's a good thing he doesn't go to any in-person meets, I don't think he's even capable of
pretending to be nice and friendly.
/r/fuckcars is bitching about Project 2025 eliminating federal subsidies for transit:
Remember, they wouldn't hesitate to cut road funding or otherwise punish anyone who doesn't use mass transit.
What's the issue? I thought dense cities paid for themselves, how could there be any federal money to cut?
Uhh uhh stupid carbrain, they spend all their money on suburban infrastructure, that's why.
Where can I find this AI slop? I'm actually serious, if he's complaining about it there's a solid chance it's better than what he's shitting out but I can't find any.
By the powers of autism, I have found it
