Car-hater Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani’s transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city’s drivers.
The New York Post is concerned that traffic in NYC is going to get bad? Do they even live in NYC, or do they just live in their office, and never leave? How do they get to work? Surely they’ve noticed the traffic?
Those big metal moving boxes that honk constantly? That isn’t the local wildlife, those are vehicles, and they are already everywhere. It would literally be IMPOSSIBLE to make it worse.
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
The New York Post is concerned that traffic in NYC is going to get bad? Do they even live in NYC, or do they just live in their office, and never leave? How do they get to work? Surely they’ve noticed the traffic?
Those big metal moving boxes that honk constantly? That isn’t the local wildlife, those are vehicles, and they are already everywhere. It would literally be IMPOSSIBLE to make it worse.
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