Its possible to like more than one thing! 😉

I think my point is that the extensive accommodations that cities make to cars is subsidizing rural residents at the expense of the people that live in the city

Thats exactly the framing I take issue with: rural residents get to live their pristine natural lifestyle without spoil, while city dwellers must accommodate them and their preferences in the name of GDP.

My neighborhood was cut in half by a 12 lane motorway several decades, and folks that live there now have to deal with living next to that. Why shouldn’t we be able to advocate for reducing the lane count or slowing traffic or prioritizing other transit options here?

Sure, and good for them. To me these discussion often revolve ultimately around “who is a place for?” And in cities this is often tipped unfairly in favor of accommodating folks from away over those that actually live there

The US seems like a weird example though because we very often have no other transit options here. Using them feels like it’s confusing cause and effect: “people prefer cars because they’re amazing“ versus “people prefer cars because the system was designed to make all other options miserable”

There’s a huge amount of wiggle room in what should be considered “paying your fair share” here, especially mentioning externalities, that I thought by definition weren’t easily priced.

But cities are better for the people that live there when they don’t have a ton of high speed traffic and parking garages

if this is your thing may i recommend www.chanceswithwolves.com

well it's not about the camera per se, but who is controlling the camera. if it's a passive security camera that's always recording that's different from software deciding when to produce an image. who audits the software? who decides if it's fair? can the accused see the source code?

also, you're probably the perfect person to weigh in on this issue: what about the concept of being able to confront your accuser? i'm generally pro traffic camera, but when you get a ticket from one you are ultimately getting penalized by an opaque piece of software

whoa where is this? in town for the next week if you wanna grab a coffee!

It's not quite as online as something like Today in Tabs, but kind of a deeper dive in to broader cultural issues, almost all of which are internet related

I like tellthebeees.substack.com

hell yeah i love when you make these