Hell hath no smugness like an urbanist with a social media account:
Individuals love experiencing this on trip, then come again dwelling and overlook what they skilled.pic.twitter.com/F2OFhyGGs6
— Andy Boenau (@Boenau) November 17, 2024
Are Individuals actually too dumb to grasp that they will rework 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 life-style, but in addition take pleasure in sampling one other one other sometimes as a result of, you realize, 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 seaside consuming alcoholic drinks out of coconuts for six days, am I an fool as a result of I don’t maintain doing that once I return dwelling? Additionally, simply as actual life within the Caribbean just isn’t mendacity on the seaside all day, not all people in Europe will get to spend all day driving bicycles across the metropolis within the solar. They work and unclog their bogs and battle with ingrown hairs and do all the opposite mundane and depressing shit we do. Additionally, there are shitty elements of Europe, too–it’s simply that you simply don’t go to them WHEN YOU’RE ON VACATION.
Most of all, what urbanists fail to grasp is that not all people desires the identical factor. Folks from the nation come to go to New York Metropolis, have a good time, then return dwelling and marvel at how folks might probably reside there as they pull into their driveways in a Hyundai Santa Fe stuffed with shit from Costco. Equally, folks from New Your Metropolis hung out 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 threat his life to carry them any kind of meals they will probably dream up in any respect hours of the day or evening:
Hey, I by no means need my holidays to finish, both, however you’ve received to get again to work finally.
Talking of urbanism, the New York Metropolis congestion cost is again, although at a diminished fee of 9 bucks:
At the moment — 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, quicker buses, accessible subways & a extra resilient future.
At the moment would not have been attainable 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, nevertheless it’s necessary to remember the fact that the congestion pricing is mainly London’s solely toll, whereas there have all the time been shitloads of them right here in New York:
However I’m certain another will repair every little thing one way or the other.
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 dwelling within the metropolis, and there are drawbacks, and that’s why I reside on the very fringe of town, which permits me to take pleasure in these benefits while additionally with the ability to do nearly all of my biking exterior of it. Naturally this requires a bicycle that’s equally at dwelling on the town:
And nation:
After praising the Y-Foil’s compliance and the street bikes of the late ’90s and early aughts, I ought to notice that the Homer is at the very least as compliant as the previous:
And at the very 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 received it a pal:
In case you’re not cautious they do are inclined to multiply.
