Critics argue that those pushing for reforms “hate people who own cars,” in the words of Vickie Paladino, a City Council member who represents a district in Queens that is home to many car owners.
I don’t hate people who own cars but I do hate cars. They pollute. They take up valuable space. They’re bad for the economy. They kill people.
In 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani moved the city’s traffic enforcement agents, the unarmed civilians who write tickets for parking and other traffic violations, from the Transportation Department to the Police Department.
Fuck Giuliani
The other day I saw a car double parked in Brooklyn. The owner was sitting at a sidewalk table drinking coffee from the coffee shop that’s there. A cop walked up and started to write a ticket, and the lady ran up to try to get out of it.
On the one hand, fuck the police. On the other, fuck that lady for double parking so she could just chill out for a while. One of the most walkable neighborhoods, and there’s a stupid amount of free, available, parking around there.
Either Technology Connections or Not Just Bikes dropped this into one of their recent videos. “Everyone hates cars. Even you. Even car guys. Everyone hates cars, and I’ll prove it. How do you feel about other people’s cars on the road? See? You hate cars. Other people’s cars, but you hate them.”
This needs to be chanted at every single city council meeting and urban planning department.
So true. Nothing like driving a delivery truck around a city to make you hate every little 70²ft of single human jamming every route all over a city where we have fantastic public transport and extensive bike lanes.
I don’t hate people who own cars but I do hate cars. They pollute. They take up valuable space. They’re bad for the economy. They kill people.
Fuck Giuliani
The other day I saw a car double parked in Brooklyn. The owner was sitting at a sidewalk table drinking coffee from the coffee shop that’s there. A cop walked up and started to write a ticket, and the lady ran up to try to get out of it.
On the one hand, fuck the police. On the other, fuck that lady for double parking so she could just chill out for a while. One of the most walkable neighborhoods, and there’s a stupid amount of free, available, parking around there.
Either Technology Connections or Not Just Bikes dropped this into one of their recent videos. “Everyone hates cars. Even you. Even car guys. Everyone hates cars, and I’ll prove it. How do you feel about other people’s cars on the road? See? You hate cars. Other people’s cars, but you hate them.”
This needs to be chanted at every single city council meeting and urban planning department.
So true. Nothing like driving a delivery truck around a city to make you hate every little 70²ft of single human jamming every route all over a city where we have fantastic public transport and extensive bike lanes.
Fuck cars.
Robert FUCKING Moses did not hate cars in NYC. He also didn’t drive himself anywhere. He did office work while being chaperoned around.