I am very grateful that the YIMBY/urbanist/anti-car folks I follow are adamant at shouting down the "no cars are ever needed" and the "look at this cool building we could make if we ignored elevator code" people, but there's an infuriating number of the shitty ones in a movement I care passionately about.
Bikes are awesome! Cities should design with bikes as first principles, not cars, 100%! And I still can't ride a bike, you utter numpties! Or a scooter, ffs. (Even leaving aside how much "it's great to bike in Amsterdam" doesn't necessarily translate to biking being a viable alternative in Los Angeles during fire season, or to Madrid in August, or to any of the myriad places with a more extreme rainy season.)
(On the other side you have people defending self-driving cars running unregulated through US cities as "important for accessibility," and, like, yeah. But. None of you people give a shit about accessibility, which is pretty clear from the rest of your lives; none of the self-driving cars being proposed is a wheelchair-accessible van; Elon would happily eugenicsize us all into space if he could; and in the long time period between "today" and "100% self-driving cars that people who can't drive at all can use", it would help if you assholes stopped doing everything you can to destroy accessible public transit.)
ETA: re my userpic: do you think those are people who don't know that wheelchair fencing is a paralympic sport for amazing athletes? because fuck anyone who likes swordfighting of any kind and doesn't think wheelchair fencing is the bomb.
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Date: 2022-06-14 06:37 pm (UTC)I am very grateful that the YIMBY/urbanist/anti-car folks I follow are adamant at shouting down the "no cars are ever needed" and the "look at this cool building we could make if we ignored elevator code" people, but there's an infuriating number of the shitty ones in a movement I care passionately about.
Bikes are awesome! Cities should design with bikes as first principles, not cars, 100%! And I still can't ride a bike, you utter numpties! Or a scooter, ffs. (Even leaving aside how much "it's great to bike in Amsterdam" doesn't necessarily translate to biking being a viable alternative in Los Angeles during fire season, or to Madrid in August, or to any of the myriad places with a more extreme rainy season.)
(On the other side you have people defending self-driving cars running unregulated through US cities as "important for accessibility," and, like, yeah. But. None of you people give a shit about accessibility, which is pretty clear from the rest of your lives; none of the self-driving cars being proposed is a wheelchair-accessible van; Elon would happily eugenicsize us all into space if he could; and in the long time period between "today" and "100% self-driving cars that people who can't drive at all can use", it would help if you assholes stopped doing everything you can to destroy accessible public transit.)
ETA: re my userpic: do you think those are people who don't know that wheelchair fencing is a paralympic sport for amazing athletes? because fuck anyone who likes swordfighting of any kind and doesn't think wheelchair fencing is the bomb.