Let's be real here, most of them already hate that that's even allowed to exist on reddit to begin with, that was more of an excuse than anything. Especially ironic since heavy handed Bloomberg era policing is necessary to make modern urban life palatable to people beyond delusional urbanists.
Bloomberg had a LOT of issues but I can't deny that Bloomberg-era NYC was in the high-water mark of the city before de Blasio ran it back into the ground.
I remember being in NYC pre and post Giuliani. He was shit but did a great job of turning the place around.
Unfortunately when corporations realize certain jobs can be done remotely is also when they realize they can outsource various functions to India or the Phillipines.
Cyclists have one of the biggest persecution complexes around and between pro-Palestine sentiment I wouldn't be too surprised if that's actually real.
Cyclist genocide? Never happened. But maybe it should have. And maybe it will happen again.
We destroy all the bridges leading onto Manhattan and go from there.
I dunno, Kurt Russel is getting up there in years…
They're science's chosen vehicle
They were promised bike lanes 3,000 years ago
The hood-noses don't want you to hear this but this is the truth: "Peak hour" is just a myth, made up by car brains to justify one more lane bro. It just doesn't add up. Six thousand cars, traveling on the same highway, in just one hour? With no induced demand? Well where's the exhaust fumes? The skidmarks? The dead pedestrians? I don't hear any honking horns by frustrated drivers right now!
Reminds me of all the /tv/ posts where "Planes confirms that WWII did happen in the Cars universe, therefore there was a Cars Rape of Nanking and Cars Holocaust" and the jokes expressing doubt that six million cars being crushed.
Easy, split off the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn as separate cities, rename the City of New York as the City of Manhattan. "New York City" was always colloquial.
That was my first thought but there's also zero chance the City of New York would allow it to happen.
New York is not going to voluntarily split itself up, it would be up to the State and various courts. Of course, there's going to be tons of downsides, like:
Virginia being a blue state is arguably not relevant here, because NoVA is turning into the Silicon Valley of the East coast, with a strong job market and high housing prices to match. When I lived there a few years back, some of my coworkers were living by choice in (shitty parts of) DC and MD because it was significantly cheaper. I'd argue the bigger reason why more people don't do that isn't another beltway, it's the lack of bridges over the Potomac. Which to your point, Maryland doesn't want because of the economics and also they technically own the river and would be paying for them. And VA also doesn't want more bridges for easier access, because as progressive as the state gov't pretends to be, the rich people in NoVA want the DC/MD ghetto blacks to stay on the other side.
