And that’s not to say there isn’t a ton of people that argue in bad faith and just hate the system. But the way to avoid the political backlash is to take real concerns about the system seriously, especially when a major destination of funds of congestion pricing is going to accessibility upgrades.

I think there is a middle ground between Disney and our current state. I don’t think wanting the city to function as designed (ie having mothers with strollers use the millions dollar elevators) is the same as ranting about how a homeless person sleeping on the train makes someone feel unsafe.

Isn’t this the similar issue tho? A detrimental tax for most people to benefit a select few ride share drivers?

Should we support raising transit fares to pay the bus drivers more? Maybe if the agency is having structural issues hiring employees.

What are your thoughts on energy codes to begin with? Especially using landmarking to avoid them? @holz-bau.bsky.social may be the expert here, but I’d think these codes could be as arbitrary as the rest.

Land, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Market.

I’m with you that we should be doing this more, but I’m wondering if its success is partially due to the fact that it is a unique street. Ie if more streets followed suit, each one would marginally be less successful.

I prefer 2-6 story mix neighborhoods which seem to support densities that make great urbanism without some of the side effects of too much density. Towers should be legal of course, but they wouldn’t really pencil in most places If the 2-6 story neighborhood was legal everywhere.

I just don’t get the complaint. Congress is not providing student loan forgiveness, so the executive takes unitary action on it. Then when the courts shoot it down, you blame them and say they are the dysfunctional ones?

Blame ultimately is with Congress. Any deflections from that is authoritarian

How is signing an executive order when you can’t pass something democracy?

I get it, the GOP oftentimes opposes things cynically, but the reason why so many things fail in court is because the democrats don’t have the votes in congress to do what they want to do plain and simple.

We live in such a liberal world that even authoritarians like Venezuela and Russia pretend to hold elections. These liberal values are global and the cultural water we live in. Not everywhere is perfectly liberal but that doesn’t mean they don’t believe in it.