Hell hath no smugness like an urbanist with a social media account:
People love experiencing this on trip, then come again residence and overlook what they skilled.pic.twitter.com/F2OFhyGGs6
— Andy Boenau (@Boenau) November 17, 2024
Are People actually too dumb to know that they’ll remodel 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 way of life, but additionally get pleasure from sampling one other one other every so often as a result of, you already know, THEY’RE ON VACATION??? That’s the entire level of a trip–you go to someplace totally different for awhile and do totally different stuff. If I’m going to the Caribbean and lie on a seashore 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 residence? Additionally, simply as actual life within the Caribbean is just not mendacity on the seashore 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 components of Europe, too–it’s simply that you just don’t go to them WHEN YOU’RE ON VACATION.
Most of all, what urbanists fail to know is that not all people needs the identical factor. Folks from the nation come to go to New York Metropolis, have a good time, then return residence and marvel at how folks might presumably dwell there as they pull into their driveways in a Hyundai Santa Fe filled with shit from Costco. Equally, folks from New Your Metropolis frolicked within the nation, savor the peace and quiet, then return to their tiny residences and thank the god they don’t consider in {that a} man on a motor scooter will danger his life to deliver them any kind of meals they’ll presumably 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 bought to get again to work ultimately.
Talking of urbanism, the New York Metropolis congestion cost is again, although at a lowered charge of 9 bucks:
Right now — since you known 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.
Right now 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 essential 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 positive yet one more will repair the whole lot by some means.
In one other daring transfer, New York Metropolis can be lastly becoming a member of the remainder of the civilized world by requiring buildings to get rid of their waste in containers:
Sadly, in contrast to a lot of the civilized world, in New York Metropolis folks 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 residing within the metropolis, and there are drawbacks, and that’s why I dwell on the very fringe of the town, which permits me to get pleasure from 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 residence 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 observe that the Homer is at the least as compliant as the previous:
And at the least 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 bought it a good friend:
If you happen to’re not cautious they do are inclined to multiply.
