HA HA

Nah, these are part of whatever restaurant is across the sidewalk. That does sound nice, but hasn't been my experience with them. I haven't eaten at all of them though, that's for sure.

It would be better to give the businesses and landlords some certainty and allow them to be built as a permanent structure. Add better trash holding infrastructure while they are at it.

Is that picture real? It looks like it should be a KenM post, talking about the very normal-looking restaurant shack instead of the prominent pile of un-binned garbage.

I would take these over franchises any day!

None of those were freestanding food places, they were simply an outside dining area for places that already had inside dining areas that nobody wanted to uses during Covid. Those little seating booths were necessary during Covid, when nobody wanted to be trapped in sealed rooms with other strangers, but their usefulness has passed, and we are left with the problems.

For one thing, they took away parking spaces, which are already extremely scarce. Secondly, because they are slightly raised, they made for a perfectly safe little living space for vermin under the floorboards. Thirdly, none of them were built with any kind of permits or regulations, and they were getting run down and poorly maintained, and that was only going to get worse. Finally, they're only useable for only about half the year anyway.

They were kind of neat during Covid, when everyone was trying anything they could to keep their businesses operating, and the government was willing to look the other way for a change, but those times have passed, and these things have become more trouble than they're worth any more.

Media is just the mouthpiece for the rich and it shows.

@CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.

Furnas previously served 8 years in the New York City Mayor’s Office

The scaremongering is strong with this newspaper!

Yeah, that's some interesting framing to say the least.

Right here.

https://thewaroncars.org/

I hadn’t been to nyc for several years until this past weekend and the difference with e-bikes really struck me. There are so many more bike lanes than there used to be, so many more people on their e-bikes than there used to be, and even some cargo e-bikes like Amazon delivery. Manhattan taking “the right road” to transportation! Keep on going!

Oh yeah, my point. Anywhere an e-bike or cargo bike can go, so can personal mobility for seniors. Now that we have bike lanes, let’s take the next lane for golf carts.

This was definitely my type of trip: grab a Dunks on the way out of the house, hop an Acela down to nyc, watch some hockey, walk around tourist areas, and hop the Acela back!

This COMMUNIST thinks building PLAYGROUNDS will solve the LACK OF PLAYGROUNDS?! Gadzooks, what fooferaw! Communists are so silly! Let the free market provide playgrounds.

Goodness, this article was a pain to read.

The NY Post is cancer. Anyone who works there should seriously reconsider their life choices.

They're trying to claim the playgrounds will be in the middle of the street. They even post a picture of an obviously poorly designed playground in between streets to associate the two ideas

This is despite the fact the whole point of closing low traffic streets to make a playground and cul de sac is so we don't have to put a playground in a literal street

It's propaganda, plain and simple

it is funny how low they are willing to go, not even journalistic integrity is stopping them anymore. should have the name of the writer out there and his twitter account so they can be shamed on public. If this is an actual person and not fake name or AI.

Solution: become a Bikeshevik.

Dogshit title.

The NY Post is a dogshit tabloid.

If possible I would avoid being anywhere densely populated in the Netherlands over New Years. The whole country loses their fucking minds, handing explosives to children as young as ten with the advice: "Go have fun in the street, kid". Strangers shoot fireworks in every direction, at buildings, into the canals, at random strangers just trying to get to shelter.

When I lived there, my girlfriend and I would always book a holiday well out of town on NYE. It's insane, and not in a fun way.

Ban cars throughout the entire city. Delivery vehicles at night time only. Let the rich return to the ancient ways. To separate themselves from the rabble, they'll be carried around in sedan chairs like the rich fat bastards of yore.

The Post? They probably all live on Staten.

TL;DR: They are stupid and selfish.

People like that would rather sit in two hours of traffic and risk a parking ticket than take a subway for 30-45min. They specifically hate the very idea of public transport and they can’t even understand that public transit can be expanded without any disruption but infrastructure expansion for the personal vehicle requires insane amounts of destruction and disruption for incredibly little gain which is cancelled out by induced demand within a year.

In Montréal I know that driving is “faster”* but I still refuse to and leave my car parked. It’s just better, but I can also handle a small amount of walking outside and I’m not such a little baby that I feel immasculated by the metro system.

*It’s faster when Google Maps applies the longest wait and transfer times, and if there’s no traffic, and if you don’t account for warming up your car and then finding parking at your destination and then walking from your car to where you were trying to go.

I was there last weekend, and some group was doing some sort of truck cruise. I first noticed “hey look at those idiots trying to drive full sized pickups in Manhattan traffic”. Then I realized the noise wasn’t just a bad muffler, but intentional.

I ended up seeing dozens, several light cycles, and they kept going well past midnight. Loud enough to be annoying from my 23rd floor hotel room

I hope Mamdani frames one of those bad boys and hangs it on his office door.

New york post going full onion parody of itself. Might as well have batboy on the front page.

God, that's hot. I want this.

Is this pic really real?

Reminds me of how they were using that same tactic for hit pieces about the congestion pricing a year ago.

You need to remember that the groups that push for this pro-car culture don’t represent the drivers, but the manufacturers.

They don’t care about the actual experience of driving - they only want to shit out as many new vehicles onto the road as possible.

How many politicians can you name that went on a hunger strike for over 1 week, to be in solidarity with poor people?

I swear, it reads like poison pen articles every time.

Yeah. I love how Murderdoch is eating his hat.

NYPost does not care about what their readers think. Their only job is to push a certain agenda. It is a propaganda rag.

Cars feel like a great solution to a relatively niche problem that got forcibly applied to several other problems for the sake of money.

Cars are fine. Car dependence is not. If you say something broad like "cars might just have been our worst idea" someone will simply point to the cases where it's unambiguously helpful such as ambulances, fire trucks, etc. and dismiss you entirely - along with dismissing the idea of walkable cities