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Do you like driving? Do you like having a yard? Do you like having a big supermarket where you can find just about everything without making stops at half a dozen stores?
If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, you are part of the problem to the Urban Left. Sure, there's a whole range of urban fetishism, most categorized by affluent bugmen who fantasize about having a loft apartment with brick walls and access to a bar with old arcade games, without acknowledging the ugliness of urban America and the politics that enable said ugliness.
However, it's not just some autists who think riding a light rail is a better experience than driving, it's worse. Much worse.
The most radical of them comes down to some unironic "force us to ride trains and live in commieblocks" philosophy, mentioned in this article, but the people that want this are out there. In Los Angeles, the chief of the transit authority openly said that "It's too easy to drive in this city,” and "part of that has to do with actually making driving harder." (mentioned in this link).
Even when it's not openly "give up your cars, citizen", the more "mainstream" blogs like Citylab or Streetsblog are big echo chambers for this nonsense (to a lesser extent, the 4chan /n/ board), often using faulty data and ridiculous hyperbole to push narratives, and anything not aligning to their perfect little vision is lambasted. In [URL]https://archive.fo/ZseD8]this case[/url] (recycled from an old post I made a matter), it's complaining about how a sidewalk is too close to the road.
Naturally, the spectrum is pretty wide but there's a distinct pattern of people who think that surface parking is literally some crime against humanity, and it plagues many forums across the Internet.
This is my first real thread of the sort, so I apologize if it's a little underdone
If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, you are part of the problem to the Urban Left. Sure, there's a whole range of urban fetishism, most categorized by affluent bugmen who fantasize about having a loft apartment with brick walls and access to a bar with old arcade games, without acknowledging the ugliness of urban America and the politics that enable said ugliness.
However, it's not just some autists who think riding a light rail is a better experience than driving, it's worse. Much worse.
The most radical of them comes down to some unironic "force us to ride trains and live in commieblocks" philosophy, mentioned in this article, but the people that want this are out there. In Los Angeles, the chief of the transit authority openly said that "It's too easy to drive in this city,” and "part of that has to do with actually making driving harder." (mentioned in this link).
Even when it's not openly "give up your cars, citizen", the more "mainstream" blogs like Citylab or Streetsblog are big echo chambers for this nonsense (to a lesser extent, the 4chan /n/ board), often using faulty data and ridiculous hyperbole to push narratives, and anything not aligning to their perfect little vision is lambasted. In [URL]https://archive.fo/ZseD8]this case[/url] (recycled from an old post I made a matter), it's complaining about how a sidewalk is too close to the road.
Naturally, the spectrum is pretty wide but there's a distinct pattern of people who think that surface parking is literally some crime against humanity, and it plagues many forums across the Internet.
This is my first real thread of the sort, so I apologize if it's a little underdone
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