The future is dense, walkable cities.

[MajorRewrite]

These are exactly the sort of small infrastructure improvements that car supporters claim are unworkable.

With the right leadership, improvements aren’t hard at all. When Janette Sadik-Khan was head of the New York City department of transportation the city made rapid improvements to the streets, including the famous transformation of Times Square.

https://www.ted.com/talks/janette_sadik_khan_new_york_s_streets_not_so_mean_any_more?language=en

 

[Rightguide]

This is one of the laziest articles I've seen in a long time.

Some businesses are planning layoffs. Also, California has some laws that we don't like that we correlate

This bullshit is how your brain works and it's obvious

Your brain doesn't work. California is in rapid decline.

 

[ll74]

Your brain doesn't work. California is in rapid decline.

I'm talking about the shit article which is shit.

Your attitude about the state is irrelevant.

 

[Rightguide]

Cheap, reliable passenger rail service is a huge boon to commerce. Privatizing AMTRAK would be like turning all the interstates over to a private company to run as toll roads.

No, it wouldn't. You pay a fee to ride on Amtrak as it is. If you were paying it to a private company it would be a more efficient and a more pleasurable trip. It would be run by people who actually know something.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

No, it wouldn't. You pay a fee to ride on Amtrak as it is. If you were paying it to a private company it would be a more efficient and a more pleasurable trip. It would be run by people who actually know something.

Boeing is a private company. The fact that something is run for profit doesn't guarantee that it's high-quality. For example, the US postal service runs at loss because it has to deliver to far-flung rural communities. If we privatized the post office, the first thing the new owners would do is end rural mail delivery to save money.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The Interstate system was never designed to be a profit center. Neither was the street in front of your house. AMTRAK should be privatized.

She just kicked your ass wrongway.

You should be enthralled a woman even to the time to reply to your snivelling bullshit...never mind that she "politely" put you in your place...

 

[Rightguide]

Boeing is a private company. The fact that something is run for profit doesn't guarantee that it's high-quality. For example, the US postal service runs at loss because it has to deliver to far-flung rural communities. If we privatized the post office, the first thing the new owners would do is end rural mail delivery to save money.

The trouble with both entities is they are totally dominated by government regulation and interference.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment

A new, comprehensive review of all the damage done by our personal vehicle dominated transportation system.

1.3 million deaths annually in crashes worldwide is just the beginning.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The trouble with both entities is they are totally dominated by government regulation and interference.

Without government regulation we get exploitation of consumers and unsafe products.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Boeing is a private company. The fact that something is run for profit doesn't guarantee that it's high-quality. For example, the US postal service runs at loss because it has to deliver to far-flung rural communities. If we privatized the post office, the first thing the new owners would do is end rural mail delivery to save money.

The reason the post office runs at a loss is almost entirely based on the federal mandate known as the USPS Fairness Act. When the post office was privatized this act was forced on the new USPS and made it mandatory that they fund retirement health care benefits 75 years into the future. Meaning it is funding healthcare for people not yet born, let alone employed by the USPS. No other governmental agency or private company is forced to do this. Your idiotic, baseless conjecture that rural mail service is to blame shows you did no research and can't provide any data to substantiate your claim. To be honest I'm not shocked by your ignorance on this topic.

https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The reason the post office runs at a loss is almost entirely based on the federal mandate known as the USPS Fairness Act. When the post office was privatized this act was forced on the new USPS and made it mandatory that they fund retirement health care benefits 75 years into the future. Meaning it is funding healthcare for people not yet born, let alone employed by the USPS. No other governmental agency or private company is forced to do this. Your idiotic, baseless conjecture that rural mail service is to blame shows you did no research and can't provide any data to substantiate your claim. To be honest I'm not shocked by your ignorance on this topic.

https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act

FedEx and UPS use the US Postal Service to deliver packages to rural customers because it's not cost-effective to maintain a fleet of trucks and drivers like they do in urban areas. I agree that forcing the USPS to fund pensions decades in the future is silly. The Post Office should be made a government agency again and abandon the fiction of it turning a profit.

 

[TrailerHitch]

FedEx and UPS use the US Postal Service to deliver packages to rural customers because it's not cost-effective to maintain a fleet of trucks and drivers like they do in urban areas. I agree that forcing the USPS to fund pensions decades in the future is silly. The Post Office should be made a government agency again and abandon the fiction of it turning a profit.

UPS AND FedEx both deliver to my home in the rural. They do here and did in Wisconsin. Amazon delivers here too. Try again...

The post office runs more efficiently now than it ever did. Remove that mandate and they will be profitable and even more efficient.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

UPS AND FedEx both deliver to my home in the rural.

Then you're not really all that "rural".

UPS FedEx, Amazon, and Canada post don't deliver to my home, hell they can't even find it. Closest common mail box is 10 miles way.

But hey, keep claiming you're "rural"....it seems to make you feel better.

 

[Rightguide]

Without government regulation we get exploitation of consumers and unsafe products.

California’s Economic Woes Are Way Worse Than We Thought​

https://dailycaller.com/files/images/DCNF-large.jpg
WILL KESSLERCONTRIBUTOR
March 27, 20244:37 PM ET

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/27/californias-economic-woes-worse-thought/

All of the reasons why your state will never be a desirable, safe, and walkable wonderland. Democrats have destroyed the place.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

California’s Economic Woes Are Way Worse Than We Thought​

https://dailycaller.com/files/images/DCNF-large.jpg
WILL KESSLERCONTRIBUTOR
March 27, 20244:37 PM ET

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/27/californias-economic-woes-worse-thought/

All of the reasons why your state will never be a desirable, safe, and walkable wonderland. Democrats have destroyed the place.

Yes it's so bad there since the economy moved from#7 in the world to #6.....

 

[MajorRewrite]

Retrofitting Suburbia: 3 strategies and 11 tactics for transforming failed commercial real estate to “incremental metropolitanism”.

It’s a long video but she provides many real life examples that keep it interesting.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The future of walkable cities, California style

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/03/...run-california-behind-the-scenes-really-talk/

 

[wizzard426]

There should be a 95% tax on shoes in these walkable shitties!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

There should be a 95% tax on shoes in these walkable shitties!

Why? What purpose would it serve?

 

[wizzard426]

Why? What purpose would it serve?

Think of the children! We could have free shit!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Think of the children! We could have free shit!

There’s already a sales tax on shoes.

Cars kill kids. Making a city walkable is thinking of the children.

 

[wizzard426]

There’s already a sales tax on shoes.

Cars kill kids. Making a city walkable is thinking of the children.

So does cancer. Good luck with that!

Abortion kills more children than cars, but, it's ok because ladies can walk to the clinic!

Ladies.......put your feet up into the stirrups for the politbureau!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

So does cancer. Good luck with that!

If we could cure cancer as easily as building safe cities I’d be elated. Building protected bike lanes and implementing traffic-calming measures is something simple we can do right now to reduce the number of kids killed by cars.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Abortion kills more children than cars, but, it's ok because ladies can walk to the clinic!

Abortion removes a clump of cells from a woman's womb. There is no children killing involved. Saying such just shows your ignorance on the subject.

 

[wizzard426]

Dense Walk-able Shitties!

https://moonbattery.com/san-francisco-floods-bay-with-ocean-of-sewage/

Please, dear sweet Jesus please, find more places to hide the Chinese Plastic trash!