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🚨 Do you live in California ? We need your help 📢📢!! Car Brains Are Trying to Fire a Politician Because He Opposes Adding More Highway Lanes (sf.streetsblog.org)
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His crime? He listens to scientists

https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/does-widening-highways-ease-traffic-congestion

Angry car brains are now trying to fire Mike Swire

At 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 10 (today!) in San Carlos (at Samtrans HQ or Zoom), the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SMCTA) will vote on removing Mike Swire, one of its most vocal critics.

You can sign this letter here:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-smcta-board-from-silencing-critics?source=direct_link&link_id=1&can_id=25b80f35b8285f3fa952daafb4dfd0b4&email_referrer=email_2807548&email_subject=urgent-stop-smcta-from-silencing-highway-widening-advocates

You can also attend the meeting on Zoom or physically.

Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

More lanes = more cars which generally means worse (slower) traffic.

Plenty of YouTubes videos for them to learn about that.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Also more cost.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Explains why they want it

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No worries, this area is the lowest cost of living. Right?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

No, paying contractors. Thats a benefit.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

curious what this group's proposal would be for that stretch of land where the widened road would be

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Don’t widen it, add more public transit. You’re not going to need wider roads (like the fucking 101 needs to be any wider) if you give people accessible non-car options. And widening the road is a money pit anyway, it doesn’t solve traffic. “Just keep adding lanes” is magical thinking.

[-] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He was re-appointed today.

But note this is just a toothless advisory committee, so in the end it really doesn’t matter.

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