Hell hath no smugness like an urbanist with a social media account:
Individuals love experiencing this on trip, then come again house and overlook what they skilled.pic.twitter.com/F2OFhyGGs6
— Andy Boenau (@Boenau) November 17, 2024
Are Individuals actually too dumb to know that they’ll rework their very own hometowns into the urbanist moist goals they expertise on their European holidays? Or are they completely content material with their very own life-style, but in addition take pleasure in sampling one other one other infrequently as a result of, you realize, THEY’RE ON VACATION??? That’s the entire level of a trip–you go to someplace completely different for awhile and do completely different stuff. If I’m going to the Caribbean and lie on a seaside ingesting alcoholic drinks out of coconuts for six days, am I an fool as a result of I don’t maintain doing that after I return house? Additionally, simply as actual life within the Caribbean is just not mendacity on the seaside all day, not all people in Europe will get to spend all day using bicycles across the metropolis within the solar. They work and unclog their bathrooms and wrestle with ingrown hairs and do all the opposite mundane and depressing shit we do. Additionally, there are shitty elements of Europe, too–it’s simply that you simply don’t go to them WHEN YOU’RE ON VACATION.
Most of all, what urbanists fail to know is that not all people desires the identical factor. Individuals from the nation come to go to New York Metropolis, have a good time, then return house and marvel at how individuals might probably dwell there as they pull into their driveways in a Hyundai Santa Fe stuffed with shit from Costco. Equally, individuals from New Your Metropolis frolicked within the nation, savor the peace and quiet, then return to their tiny flats and thank the god they don’t consider in {that a} man on a motor scooter will threat his life to deliver them any kind of meals they’ll probably dream up in any respect hours of the day or night time:
Hey, I by no means need my holidays to finish, both, however you’ve received to get again to work finally.
Talking of urbanism, the New York Metropolis congestion cost is again, although at a decreased charge of 9 bucks:
At present — since you referred to as and rallied and by no means stopped pushing — @GovKathyHochul is advancing congestion pricing.
We’re one step nearer to cleaner air, safer streets, sooner buses, accessible subways & a extra resilient future.
At present would not have been doable with out you. pic.twitter.com/fs4HI17xtP
— Transportation Options (@TransAlt) November 14, 2024
To not piss on anybody’s participation trophy, however congestion pricing isn’t again due to the rallying, it’s again as a result of the election is over. Additionally, there’s a notion that New York Metropolis is lastly catching as much as London by instituting congestion pricing, but it surely’s necessary to take into account that the congestion pricing is principally London’s solely toll, whereas there have at all times been shitloads of them right here in New York:
However I’m certain yet another will repair every thing one way or the other.
In one other daring transfer, New York Metropolis can also be lastly becoming a member of the remainder of the civilized world by requiring buildings to eliminate their waste in containers:
Sadly, not like a lot of the civilized world, in New York Metropolis individuals will run off with something that’s not nailed down, so buildings are simply chaining the containers to the bike racks:
One step ahead, two steps again:
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords:
However sure, there are benefits to dwelling within the metropolis, and there are drawbacks, and that’s why I dwell on the very fringe of the town, which permits me to take pleasure in these benefits while additionally having the ability to do virtually all of my biking exterior of it. Naturally this requires a bicycle that’s equally at house on the town:
And nation:
After praising the Y-Foil’s compliance and the highway bikes of the late ’90s and early aughts, I ought to word that the Homer is no less than as compliant as the previous:
And no less than as quick because the latter, all while boasting fenders, a voluminous saddle bag, a dynamo hub, and the widest gear vary of any of my bikes.
I prefer it a lot I even received it a good friend:
Should you’re not cautious they do are inclined to multiply.
