"White Female Mamdani"?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.
In one line I got:
She's comparable to current rockstar mayor
She fixed bus service
She hersekf uses bus service
She noticed a problem and fixed it
She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary
Definitely couldn't before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.
Right, good article, she couldn't then but can now, yet she chooses not to in order to help the lives of regular people
If you've been to downtown Seattle you know why people don't drive there.
To give more history about this route, there is a annual "race the 8! event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on the worst part of its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it to its designations. Folks have beat it juggling, walking backwards, dancing, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.
This route serves an intensely dense part of the city and has been failing people for years. The city/county have been making piddly, empty changes for nearly a decade that fixed nothing, like adding a 1 block bus lane. Yup, one block only.
The bus is regularly 30-40 minutes late, which makes using it miserable and unreliable. The reason its route is terrible is that there is a highway onramp thats right there near Amazon HQ. So for years and years people commuting in and out of the city have been prioritized over people who live in it, and no previous mayor had the stones to push back and fix it for actual residents.
It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.
Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she.... Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don't get how these people think that's such a bad thing.
Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people "that haven't worked hard enough for it." They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that "its for the poors."
Oh I know their logic. I just don't get their logic cause it's fucking dumb.
That’s my mayor! On the campaign trail, she raced the eight (the bus she is adding a lane for) by walking while holding her child, and beat the bus to the end of its route. The bus lane is very needed, and she is cool as hell for delivering on her campaign promises.
If you can best a bus in a footrace, that bus route needs to be improved. As simple as that.
My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus (when starting at the same time) but the waiting time should not make the bus slower.
Edited: wording
With all the stops, cycling is usually faster unless the route is uphill or you really don't have a lot of stops and probably need more.
I have done similar in my city (sans baby). I had like a 3 mile commute and while usually the bus would get a ahead of me before I got to work I had a thing where if I got to 2 miles in im not taking the bus for the last mile. That situation was not uncommon. I would stop and look behind so if it was close to two miles and I saw it I might still take it.
The GOP’s worst insult was comparing her to the coolest mayor in recent memory. over a bus lane.
lol
Isn’t Mamdani doing extremely well as mayor?
So isn’t this a compliment?
Yes. But the right has basically stopped covering him since he met with Trump and tamed him with charisma.
So, they basically just bring him up to mean "communist that is going to destroy your city" because that's where they left it. If they don't cover him as actual ~~governor~~ mayor then they can keep pretending he's bad.
The only thing I learned from that headline is that The Daily Mail is racist trash.
Let me get my daily fail headline translator out real quick:
"Came under fire" == "somebody tweeted"
"Fury" == "a bot tweeted"
"Outrage" == "one of our staff tweeted"
"Slammed" == "somebody liked our tweet"
"Takes away lane of road from motorists" is a wild way to say "Created a bus lane". These people need help.
Gets elected to mayor, fixes the bug, resigns.
"White female mamdani" is just fucking insane 💀 Also seattle is extremely woke compared to the rest of the us so good luck creating backlash. Its gonna be all the people from several states away who have nothing to do with it that complain. Same thing with NY, a lot of the people saying how "new york will fall" were from texas and whatever.
Mamdani had a sex & race change? Fair enough.
No silly, this is just his crime fighting alter ego
Daily Mail is GOP propaganda.
Meanwhile Doug Ford and Ken Sim killing bike lanes to shave 30 seconds off theor personal commutes.
More like add 2 minutes due to increased congestion and lack of alternatives. All the studies done showed that the bike lanes actually improved travel times in most cases.
Yeah, true. Turns out that bike lanes can move more people in urban environments, and forcing bikes into car lanes will slow everyone down. WHO WOULDA THUNK
I'm not versed into English poetry, but mysogyny and racism put asside, can someone tell me is it suppose to be a well written sentence or as ugly as I feel this is ?
This is as ugly as you feel it is. Dumb people only read the headline, so newspapers written for dumb people try to jam all the points they want to make in the article into the headline.
Mamdani is living rent free in those dipshits head. What really hurts them is that its working.
I get why they're mad. They never expected a mayor would do what she campaigned on doing.
Daily Hate doing its thing with "White Female Mamdani
Each of those three words designed to reinforce the rightwing views How dare a WOMAN make decisions! Suggests that weak willed white people being converted to Brown people thinking! We should not allow bus lanes even though they routinely carry 20% of the population.
That was a really hard to parse title
Mayor removes a lane of a road that wasn't working so that Transit can actually function instead.
not sure ive ever read such an obviously goofy headline. over the top
How many contrasting qualifiers does it take for a comparison to become useless?
They takin' our lane, fuckin up everything
why don't to you take the bus?
ain't nobody take no busses, deys to slow.
good in her, my IQ was lowered a little more reading that screenshots though.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
Well . . . yeah
Based as fuuuuck
More bus lanes please.
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