There’s nonetheless a lot rending of clothes over congestion pricing interruptus, although at this level clearly the large query is, “What does Garrison Keillor” take into consideration all this?
Nicely, right here’s what he has to say with regards to congestion pricing:
It’s definitely as astute an evaluation as I’ve seen anyplace.
In the meantime, others are taking the governor’s suspension of congestion pricing as a name to arms and are encouraging “civil disobedience:”
Little question I’d really feel simply as strongly if I lived in a spot immediately affected by this coverage corresponding to…Redwood Metropolis, CA?
I be aware she identifies as a “YIMBY.” When you’re unfamiliar with urbanist slang, right here’s a bit cheat sheet:
NIMBY: A pejorative acronym which means “Not In My Yard,” which refers to uptight individuals who oppose improvement, avenue redesigns, and so forth. and assume bike lanes symbolize the tip of civilization. NIMBYs preface each assertion by telling you what number of years they’ve lived within the neighborhood and that they pay taxes.
YIMBY: A smug acronym which means “Sure In My Yard” for individuals who outline themselves in direct opposition to NIMBYs and love density and assume the whole world needs to be one large moderately-sized European metropolis. Sarcastically, whereas wanting stuff of their backyards, most YIMBYs hate backyards and assume they symbolize the tip of civilization.
Mainly, these are the principle classes, however now that we’re within the age of social media and there are not any residency necessities on the subject of giving your opinion on how others ought to stay their lives I believe we’d like one other one:
YIYBY: An acronym which means “Sure In Your Yard” for individuals who stay in rich low-density areas but fetishize densely populated city areas. They’d completely stay in these overpriced city hellholes too, if solely it weren’t for causes.
Talking of working afoul of the legislation, Laurens ten Dam and Thomas Dekker had been apparently the victims of rampant and unbridled homophobia previous to Unbound Gravel and spent the night time in an Oklahoma jail:
Their crime? Spraying one another with water bottles in a “homosexual” vogue:
Right here’s a considerably drier account of this wet-hot story:
Okay, so that they wanted to alter their garments after a coaching journey however their ordinary spot blew away in a twister–a probable story:
So as an alternative they only get bare and begin pouring water over one another within the car parking zone:
This lands them in jail for “inappropriate habits in public areas:”
Now, I’m not a lawyer, however right here’s a little bit of free authorized recommendation: for those who’re caught bare in a car parking zone behind a automotive door being doused with chilly water, don’t inform the arresting officers you “simply needed to clean up for the Mexican,” except you desire a prostitution cost on high of all the things else.
And sure, maybe sooner or later we’ll all be free to frolic and bathe bare in parking heaps from coast to coast, however till then, greatest to simply get modified contained in the automotive and use moist wipes.
Lastly, Earl Blumenauer desires to carry again home bike manufacturing:
Will Congress go The Home Bicycle Manufacturing Act?
I don’t know, however I learn “10-year tariff suspension on element imports” as “10-year tariff on suspension element imports” and acquired so excited I needed to douse myself with chilly water.
Fortuitously I didn’t do it whereas bare in a car parking zone.
