More parking, fewer bike lanes: City of Boston, T release new Blue Hill Avenue redesign

a month ago by Orwi to c/fuckcars

The new plan would dedicate more of the road to motor vehicle travel and parking between Grove Hall and Mattapan Square, effectively creating a more car-friendly design.

Orwi 29 points a month ago

I love Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, but this is some serious bullshit.

You won the election. It's over. The pro-car asshole was defeated.

Now it's time to be BOLD. Democracy is great, but we can't keep having debates. Do these angry residents have scientific evidence that their ideas will actually improve the city? No. So fuck them.

The masses are not always right. Real leadership means you need to accept to be temporarly unpopular when you know you are right.

I don't like Billionaires, but Mike Bloomberg was a great New York City mayor precisely because he didn't give a shit about being popular as long as the data was on his side. He banned smoking in bars. He banned smoking in restaurants. He mandated calorie counts on chain restaurant menus. He pedestrianized much of Times Square. He created the Citi Bike Program. He invested in bike lanes. People kept whining. He just ignored them.

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ladicius 23 points a month ago

The mayor of Paris, Ms. Hidalgo, went that way - was elected and was thought to never ever get into a second term so she just went crazy sane on installing lots of bike friendly infrastructure and pushing cars out of their privileges...

Was voted into a second term after people realised how nice a city with lesser cars is. Turns out most people aren't that crazy for the damages cars do to their city.

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LibertyLizard 6 points a month ago

Is this even the masses or just a few loud idiots though?

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savvie 4 points a month ago

the war on bikes escalates— what’s next, a war on Christmas??

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