It's hilarious that the urbanists no matter what the profession assert that they know better about the needs of the people in that field than the people actually in it.
Because "how dare you criticize the magical negro/spic store! It has culture and folksiness and muh heckin chopped cheeserino!!"
this really is just all they do. It takes an extraordinary amount of privilege to sit down and say that the #1 problem with cities like NYC isn't crime, drugs, or even homelessness (a shockingly low number of the transit-soy types give two fucks about housing, surprisingly because they'dve grown up on Staten Island or some other ivory island) but the greatest problem with NYC is actually that the metro isn't unsafe, but that it's not popular enough! And then they spend their careers retweeting whatever the NYC city office puts out as fact
I'm pretty sure the NL and other places just have smaller fire brigade vehicles, but more stations dispersed since they're in cities
Who's gonna tell this person that it's the schizos and the nogs that you have to watch out for? The Trump-lovers they're probably worried either live in the suburbs and/or have a car. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if their "bipoc" roommate was dealing with racism from nogs or some other sort of mystery meat swarthoids on the subway. Just look at the Daniel Penny mess.
Picturing Jason trapped under an overturned SUV while a bunch of paramedics and cops just look on helplessly.
F-150s are so bad for construction I see them at every single construction site by every single construction company. If only they visited r/fuckcars they could see the light and ditch those obviously useless vehicles. Some redditor in his parents' house knows a lot more than the professionals.
New Yorkers are some of the most provincial people out there. Even the rich ones are uncultured and ignorant if they grew up in the city as children. It's ironic that the same people who think they are so worldly think that "little italy" is just as good as actual Italy.
Yes, they are largely overgrown children.
I think you're thinking of John Deere the tractor/farming equipment company but I wouldn't be surprised with any car manufacturer also being against it.
Ford also hates right to repair, but Deere is the poster-child of that campaign.
In fairness, I would be scared to take public transit in new york too. This is a shining example of what an ACTIVE New york city subway station looks like.
They can't even make the areas the customers see look nice? Not even a shiny veneer to mask the rot and decay of the stuff behind the scenes?
Deere is particularly sinister, because for a good deal of their equipment there simply isn't a competitor. And if their is a competitor, there is a non-zero chance it's owned by Deere.
Well supposedly as of april 2024 they're touting that they want to refurbish that station and spend 100 million dollars but they also haven't even named a single contractor or company that would work on it. I don't know how these people live with this level of service.
This is another thing I hate with NYC area planners, they're so blindly obedient to Eric Adams they won't entertain any criticism of the MTA like this. When even Russia, who runs their entire country off an economy as big as NY state's, can manage to have stations like this:
That IS the nice, shiny veneer.
Yeah literally no city I've been to in the mainland or outside of north america in asia has had the level of rot and disrepair I've seen in photos of new york
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Metro 2033 looks nicer than this. I'd rather deal with the atomic mutant horror creatures.
/r/fuckcars made a meme that completely misunderstood Moscow's metro stations, it's not triple the budget of New York's, it's because they don't have massive graft within the system (and that's RUSSIA, not the most honest of places), meanwhile like over 50% of MTA gets eaten by "administration costs".
Despite being only the 10th largest metro on earth, new york is by far the most expensive in terms of what they've been building as of late, and the level of speed, quality, and service is pretty much nonexistent compared to ones at a fraction of the cost beijing (#1 largest), shenzhen (#5 largest), etc
