What I find funny about the "It's not noisy argument" is that the electric busses still have road noise. Yes, electric vehicles are quieter than combustion-powered ones, but you can still hear an electric car coming. If they're not going fast enough to really have much road noise, then there's a distinctive high-pitched whine of the electric motor and drive circuitry have when the vehicle is straining to barely move.
And yet, apparently electric vehicles are too quiet. I'm starting to see electric busses equipped with speakers that play noise that increases in volume and pitch with speed. I guess the idea is to make the busses louder and more noticeable so pedestrians will stop getting hit by the electric busses.
I know light rail trains use recordings of actual train horns, so it's just as annoying as real trains but a pale imitation of one (talk about "YWNBAT"), and would be annoying to live near (as well as the squealing of the wheels when braking, at least real trains on level, straight track tend not to brake).
Not even the poorest people where I'm from don't get live near the train tracks anymore. Those old homes nearby the tracks are abandoned for a really good reason.
I would wager it's one of those situations where the track is between the street and the houses, and is more of a train issue--they'll find any excuse to shut down a grade crossing and snapping up crap homes to put those crossings out of existence is something they'd do.
You can see a remnant of an abandoned track (the railroad went away first) here in
Houston (again) with some of the crummy houses steps away from where the trains used to run. The rail companies see situations like that as a liability and you can bet at least one person in that neighborhood is scummy enough to use that as a ticket to the ghetto lottery.
Jason will stop posting new videos from his content farm channel on community posts through his main channel, but not quite yet.
The thumbnail has the new building not even resemble the old one. If you have to remove everything from a building except the most basic foundation and structural supports it's hardly the same building. The only way it makes sense is if there's so much horseshit in the city about complete demolition and rebuilding that gutting an old building makes more economic sense but addressing those concerns would expose big-city policies as crooked and needlessly expensive.
One old example is opposition to fast food and how it hurts urban communities. It goes so far as some communities banning fast food establishments from opening under the guide of health concerns.
I read about a third of
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America and it not only went turbo-left with nonsense like "the deep connections between the development of modern capitalism and racial subjugation and oppression" and excusing actions of black rioters (and if you leave the neighborhood because your small business is now a burned-out husk, it's YOUR fault for not trying hard enough).
Reality is for whatever reason, if McDonald's and KFC can make it in some of the shittiest neighborhoods in the country they must be doing
something right.
NJB is just as stupid and ignorant as Randal O'Toole
That's not true. O'Toole's personal takes usually suck but most of his data and research is sound, not NJB who will either cite circlejerks or make things up.
