Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“

Fucking socialist, wasting money on things people need.

I know you're joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.

Car infrastructure doesn't need to make a profit don't you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city

He’s young enough that, once he’s done in NYC, he could go off and be mayor of several other cities afterward.

EDIT 2: See Aatube's comment below for the NYT article link. It's real.

I mean, I do legitimately wonder how he did this when other administrations didn't or couldn't.

I suspect the article is overselling it (the comparison, not the raw pothole number), and they don't source basically anything they're saying, so it's hard to definitively call them on that. NYC had a winter that created an abnormal number of potholes, and this article (using an uncited figure) says: "the same number that would usually take New York’s Department of Transport (DOT) a week." But is that for filling potholes directly after winter? Is it for the rate of potholes per week averaged across the year (which would be a completely invalid comparison)? I guess I could try digging it up, but Novara Media clearly didn't give enough of a shit when they said it.

I think it's cool regardless.

Donate one hour’s wage per month—or whatever you can afford—today.

Dunno, Novara; maybe when you decide to learn how hyperlinks work.

EDIT: I tried to follow one breadcrumb to the NYT using this quote from the article: "According to the New York Times, the incident signaled early on that Mamdani was raring to take on “long ignored street improvements – the kind of meat-and-potatoes issue that some previous mayors have struggled to deliver on”.".

I can't find that quote, even trying several different verbatim excerpts from the quote (but the full quote should be findable anyway). Thaaaaaaaat's really fucking questionable. I could be missing something. @return2ozma@lemmy.world, your thoughts?

Trump won't be eligible in next election and I'm certain that won't stop him from trying. Why can't we do the same?

They're gonna pay one way or the other.

We don't want cake.

I mean this really isn't socialism this is just basic general government work and somebody actually pushing for the people that do the work that they're being paid to do already.

No it doesn't. He was lining his fucking pockets.

Fraud. At a break-neck pace.