Wu recently visited the Italian city of Sulmona, “a town with strong ties through immigration to Boston’s North End.” Restaurateurs were quick to make another comparison: outdoor dining is prevalent there.
I don’t know the specifics of your situation. I am sure that it is frustrating. However, public transportation serves numerous people more efficiently (when running correctly, lets not get sidetracked) and discouraging single occupancy vehicles is a positive in many people’s minds. Increasing single occupancy vehicle throughput by maintaining multiple lanes of traffic has been shown to hurt cities in many ways. I have a friend who is an electrician and he simply cannot use public transportation because he needs a van to take equipment to numerous locations, but he also supports road diets and bike lanes and that really makes me respect him.
Wu sucks. The standstill traffic caused by her empty bus lanes is neolib paternalism. What’s next? Arrests for people drinking soda in city limits?
So in lots of places like in Cambridge the lanes have been shown to alleviate traffic.
There are so many reasons to complain about traffic, so many REAL reasons like arteries around downtown or alewife…
So why use the term “paternalism”? Wu’s not even your father…
All urban studies show that bus and bike lanes do not result in lower speed of travel or increase in traffic.
Bullshit.
Come sit in the standstill traffic that I sit in every single day where I used to cruise through before bus only lanes.
I live in Boston. Traffic is absolutely no worse than it was 15 years ago.
Get on the bus, dumbass, that’s the point.
Fuuuuuck that.
I don’t know the specifics of your situation. I am sure that it is frustrating. However, public transportation serves numerous people more efficiently (when running correctly, lets not get sidetracked) and discouraging single occupancy vehicles is a positive in many people’s minds. Increasing single occupancy vehicle throughput by maintaining multiple lanes of traffic has been shown to hurt cities in many ways. I have a friend who is an electrician and he simply cannot use public transportation because he needs a van to take equipment to numerous locations, but he also supports road diets and bike lanes and that really makes me respect him.
Oh I am sorry, your anecdotal evidence is clearly more reliable than research.