IT’S A TAX ON THE WORKING CLASS!! that drive through lower Manhattan during business hours 
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After all, if any city in American has cheap alternatives to driving, it’s certainly NYC!
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Aaaaaand here is the latest from the reichwing:
Republicans still love traffic jams and burning petroleum.
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Yesterday a well-dress, older woman was riding her bike up Broadway around 30th Street. She soon found an Audi with Virginia plates parked in the bike lane. As she avoided the car she called out:
“IT’S NOT A PARKING SPACE, SCHMUCK!”
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Car is bizarre thing. Most of them just stand there wasting space for most of the time. Each of them signifying massive mounts of time, space and resources (not sure if I know how to but that in any language). While moving they just add all kinds of bad stuff into the air from fumes to tires.
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I’m glad to see parking reform and increased walkability are getting more popular in some cities / towns:
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Oh dear, this really has everything, from a real estate salesman who might inspire a Dr. Chuck Tingle novel to Ronald Hamburger…
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After SSC High Rise ghosted the project, Pizzarotti brought in a replacement concrete contractor to finish the superstructure. The new firm did a review of the tower and noticed something amiss. On April 17, 2018, Pizzarotti received a fateful memo: “There are structural issues, unusual settlement. . . . The building is leaning 3 inches to the north.”
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But, as with Pisa, work on the tower did not stop. It only got more frenzied. Rather than pausing to fix what had already been done, an attempt was made to straighten the thing out in midair. To compensate for the lean, higher floors were intentionally poured out of alignment, in the opposite direction.
Just to clarify, that’s also exactly what they did in Pisa, way back when.
This compounded the problem. “What happened was, as the building went up, the parties tried to pull it back and it kind of counterweighted,” a lawyer representing Pizzarotti later explained to a judge. “Your Honor,” the lawyer said, “it’s shaped like a banana right now.”
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An executive with a direct view of the busted tower invited me to take a peek. “I was excited when I got this office, because I like having construction outside my window—something to look at while I daydream,” he told me.
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I can so relate to this that I feel seen. I actually like having a construction site next to my hotel on vacations. No need to set an alarm clock, and always something interesting to look at.
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Interesting! I think the utility of this approach would depend a lot on the availability of good public transit, particularly if the plots of land being repurposed are scattered across a large metro area.
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Not too few of the places they are looking to build are on the MARTA line, so at least some of it is tied into the train system but not all of it (I believe that’s in part due to the land around train stations often being owned by the city and/or MARTA). The city and MARTA had a plan recently to expand rail, but backed off when it was seen as too expensive. They are going to build another street car line that goes from the other one that’s downtown over to midtown…
I think, in general, lots of people are unhappy with him, primarily due to his refusal to hear opposition to Cop City… I don’t think he’s going to get another term in office.
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I don’t get why they’re against it. First of all, it’s a copy of London’s system, which is a copy of Singapore’s, an authoritarian country they should love. Secondly, doesn’t this mean that only rich people can drive in Manhattan and that they get less gridlock? Isn’t that exactly what they want? Services and quality of life only for the rich?
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They want to poor to come serve the rich in Manhattan while destroying anything that remotely improves their lives (public transit that’s cheap and accessible).
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