Someone explains what this means to me, a dumbass.
Someone explains what this means to me, a dumbass.
Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It’s creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.
Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.
City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.
Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.
Here’s some cool stuff our looser rules and more reasonable costs used to allow but we got rid of all of that so don’t worry.
They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic
Shot better from 3 than from 2.
That’s my 🐐
Mt. Moran. Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.
I saw someone say that he prefers a car setup similar to Max’s. But yeah, even though he’s my favorite driver, he’s had plenty of chances. I can’t imagine any world where he gets Checo’s seat, even til the end of the season.
idk, half the fun of being an F1 fan is, during silly season, trying to determine whether driver X would win against driver Y in the same car
if there are fans out there not doing that, though, yeah, Nando’s right
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we’re designing for cars/bikes/peds. We’re not. We’re designing for people, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it’s very much not zero-sum.
It’s only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you’ll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃
Pierre looks like he’s at his first day of standing lessons.
As usual, concern trolling about fire response and the conservative firefighters themselves standing in the way of making places for people.
My buddy calls them “naughty” bikes, as in “not e”. I think it’s cuter than acoustic.
Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.
This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?