“White Female Mamdani”?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
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Feels like one of those “bad now, better later” changes—depends if it actually improves transit.
Bus lanes have higher throughput of commuters than car lanes.
If a mayor created a private lane only they could use between their house and work, that would be a crazy abuse of power. Or say, put in stop signs / lights right at their subdivision so traffic was more convenient for them in particular.
This mayor sped up the commute for thousands of people at a minimal impact to a significantly smaller number.
Mamdani is living rent free in those dipshits head. What really hurts them is that its working.
That was a really hard to parse title
Car owners: “We can’t use that one lane now if it’s reserved for buses! This is bad! We want to use that lane!”
Random passers-by: “Well, if you want to use that lane so badly, why don’t you use a bus, then?”
Car owners: “We can’t! B-b-b-because…!” 😡Mayor: based af Daily mail: biased af
wow so many [fill in the blank] isms in one sentence
“This doctor who has never had measles is vaccinating people!!1!”
“Daily Mail is pure garbage.”
Correct.
They takin’ our lane, fuckin up everything
why don’t to you take the bus?
ain’t nobody take no busses, deys to slow.
And crackheads
Crackheads never worried me, catching a cold/flu on the light rail was pretty shitty though.
“Takes away lane of road from motorists” is a wild way to say “Created a bus lane”. These people need help.
The only people who ride the bus are people I hate with wide eyed, red-faced, frothing rage.
I hope this is a description of the inner machinizations of the outraged crowd in question… rather than you being the example.
Whoa, whoa. Chill. It’s just a bus.
Why are you screaming like hell, buddy?
I’m sorry, that’s just my instinctive response to the b-word.
Oh no, I see it.
Let me get my daily fail headline translator out real quick:
“Came under fire” == “somebody tweeted”
“Fury” == “a bot tweeted”
“Outrage” == “one of our staff tweeted”
“Slammed” == “somebody liked our tweet”
I’m not versed into English poetry, but mysogyny and racism put asside, can someone tell me is it suppose to be a well written sentence or as ugly as I feel this is ?
That’s how English headlines are written. American ones are even more awkwardly terse.
Yeah the whole sentence sucks. I am convinced it’s meant to have people think “what the fuck are they even talking about?” and click.
Daily Mail writes at the level of it’s audience, and this is a Facebook Rant tier piece of journalism.
This is as ugly as you feel it is. Dumb people only read the headline, so newspapers written for dumb people try to jam all the points they want to make in the article into the headline.
try to jam all the points they want to make in the article into the headline.
the specific wording of specific headline aside, i like it far more than “you will never believe what this politician did!!!”
you SHOULD be able to tell what the article is about from the headline and only click for details if you are interested.
I can’t understand a single word of this from “who has never owned a car”.
“White female mamdani” is just fucking insane 💀 Also seattle is extremely woke compared to the rest of the us so good luck creating backlash. Its gonna be all the people from several states away who have nothing to do with it that complain. Same thing with NY, a lot of the people saying how “new york will fall” were from texas and whatever.
they had to emphasize she is white and a female, they dont consider her human. Mamdani has defintely got the dnc scared to the point they had to reveal thier true colors as racists and islamophobc like the gop they are.
Also seattle is extremely woke
It’s a satrap of the Boeing/Amazon Imperium with all the existential horror that implies.
Case in point, Seattle hosts no less than five Superfund Sites for toxic waste cleanup. You cannot fish in several of it’s major waterways due to the accumulated contamination.
It was a major perpetrator of Red Lining, creating enormous ghettos that suffer from neglect and hyper-policing to this day.
But we don’t have anyone in the City Council screaming the N-word during campaign events or promising to deport 100M people if elected to higher office, so it gets the reputation of Woke by comparison.
Same thing with NY, a lot of the people saying how “new york will fall” were from texas and whatever.
Corpus Christi is on the verge of losing water pressure across the entire municipality, because the city administration looted the funds for desalination facilities too aggressively.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg on Texas politics right now.
But sure, they’ve made a cottage industry of heckling the other major economic heavyweights in the country.
The “compared to the rest of the us” carried a lot of weight in my argument and you left that out in quoting me but other than that yeah i agree.
That’s my mayor! On the campaign trail, she raced the eight (the bus she is adding a lane for) by walking while holding her child, and beat the bus to the end of its route. The bus lane is very needed, and she is cool as hell for delivering on her campaign promises.
If you can best a bus in a footrace, that bus route needs to be improved. As simple as that.
My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus (when starting at the same time) but the waiting time should not make the bus slower.
Edited: wording
With all the stops, cycling is usually faster unless the route is uphill or you really don’t have a lot of stops and probably need more.
How far apart are you stops? It’ll they are too close, I can see this happen. ~5 minute walking?
Bus routes are not always straight, that may also contribute. But yeah, I think stops are 5–7 minutes by foot apart here
Maybe I’m just a dumbass, but I think your rule of thumb is busted?
X should be slower than A, but should not be faster than A + B.
Isn’t slower the same as “not faster”? I think it should be slower than A, but faster than A + B. So between A and A + B.
Or “the bus should be faster if it’s already here, but cycling should be faster if you’d have to wait for the bus”. I think that’s what you were going for.
Yeah, almost. Cycling shouldn’t be much faster than having to wait. If it is, either the route has too many stops or a low frequency.
My average cycle speed at around 10 kmph (minimal effort, no hills, some red lights) and if a bus can’t match this…
Give it better signalling, dedicated lanes to skip traffic, etc.
Okay, I’m not the only one who was confused there for a sec
My ‘can’t hold attention long enough to read all the words’ brain auto-converted it to
My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus but should not be slower than waiting time + the ride.
which must be what they meant.
Its a good rule of thumb. I ride an hour in to work (on an e-scooter) because it is faster than that bus during rush hour. Outside of rush hour though, the bus beats me every time. It’d be cool if I could become mayor to add a bus lane for that route. And all the other routes that need it tbh.
My rule of thumb is that within a city, a bus (other than BRT) is likely roughly the same speed as a bike, assuming good bike routes.
If the bikes are stopping regularly because of red lights, that will obviously change.
Bike with parkin can and often should be faster start to destination than walking+bus+walking at least comzared to city buses, it’s different with buses who are allowed to go faster than 50 km/h
Some cities have abysmal frequencies. So you would be waiting for 20 minutes or more
if a bicycle is slower than a bus, then it is definitely slower than waiting+taking a bus
no?
counterpoint: cycling takes 10 minutes, bus takes 5 minutes, at this point cycling is slower than the bus. waiting for the bus takes 8 minutes, now cycling is faster than waiting + ride time
that makes sense and now that i reread it idk what i was thinking. sounds like a few people were confused though loll
Think you got yourself mixed around there.
It was quite a popular race!
As someone commuting to the city from the Eastside (now taking the train every day), I was unfamiliar with the sad state of the 8 line before this post.
There’s a dedicated website: https://fixthel8.com/
I learned from that site that all-girl punk band Tacocat wrote a song called F. U. #8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRFlROqgFwo
I have done similar in my city (sans baby). I had like a 3 mile commute and while usually the bus would get a ahead of me before I got to work I had a thing where if I got to 2 miles in im not taking the bus for the last mile. That situation was not uncommon. I would stop and look behind so if it was close to two miles and I saw it I might still take it.
I have done something similar on Oxford Street.
I suspect this is not the same.
My mayor too! She was the first politician that I canvassed for. I had a blast.
Hell yeah.
We have a dedicated lane for our streetcar line here in KC and it is glorious.
