Septuagenarian Upper West Siders yell at 15 year-old for wanting to preserve a car-light street at the cost of 13 parking spaces (nyc.streetsblog.org)

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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.

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, look, it's like a little small scale representation of the US in general. You've got:

-Frustrated young people with reasonable takes

-Outnumbered by angry old rich people with nothing better to do than complain that government isn't catering to their and only their exact needs.

-Working age adults were too busy, burned out, and broke to attend.

The bit where the guy is saying he didn't know (or care) about the change because he fled to his second home during COVID really just sends it, I think.

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