Septuagenarian Upper West Siders yell at 15 year-old for wanting to preserve a car-light street at the cost of 13 parking spaces - eviltoast
Fight Over a Single UWS Open Street is So Bitter, Council Member Called in a Mediator - Streetsblog New York City
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We've seen divorces that were more amiable than a battle over a single roadway on the Upper West Side.

Some great displays of carbrain in this article.

DeSeta also likened one of the groups advocating for the open street, Transportation Alternatives, to the National Rifle Association.

“TA is a multi-million-dollar not-for-profit lobbying organization. And you know what non-profit lobbyists could be? NRA is a not-for-profit, so, ya know, not-for-profit is a loosey-goosey term,” she said.

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Like DeSeta, Herb Alter, who lives at 103rd Street and West End Avenue, objected, as many opponents typically do, to the “process” by which decisions were made when he was otherwise engaged. During the pandemic, he said, he and his ill wife decamped to their East Hampton second home — and the first he had heard about the open street was at the local dog run upon his return to the city last year.

Basically, a bunch of 70 year-old rich white people who live in a neighborhood where 73% of people do not own cars are trying to get rid of some intense traffic calming the city did during Covid because they lost 13 parking spaces.

It boggles the mind that there are people who live in Manhattan and choose to own cars without a dedicated place to keep them.

  • buckenmuck@kbin.social
    19·
    1 year ago

    “Why am I so angry? My 11-year-old-son was killed by a reckless driver on a I-95 and I almost died also, and I did not ask everybody in Connecticut to give up their cars,” she said.

    You should have. And by opposing traffic calming projects like this, you’re only condemning someone else’s 11-year-old son to the same fate.

    • regul@lemm.eeOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Look, her kid died so yours should too. Stopping kids from getting killed by cars wouldn’t be fair to all the kids who have already been killed by cars.