The Urbanist Cult

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Anonymous wrote:Why do some people think it’s the government’s responsibility to buy them stuff?

Because we are in an unprecedented time where we have the technology and resources to provide basic human needs to everyone, and some of us see it as unconscionable not to do so when we are able. Food, shelter, clothing, education, healthcare, there is no scarcity problem, only a distribution problem. The government can correct that problem therefore the government needs to correct that problem, anything else is a failure of its duty to its citizens.

Hear, hear!

No reason to make people suffer when food, housing, clothes, schooling and healthcare are plentiful. We owe it to those who are without and the best way to make sure people get these necessities is good government.

This is what happens when you raise a generation where everyone gets a trophy.

As a liberal Democrat, I find this sentiment embarrassing and the reason why we barely won the last election and will lose the next.

What happens? People realize letting your fellow humans starve and freeze for greater profits isn't in our society's best interest?

I find anyone who thinks that basic necessities should be profit generating commodities an embarrassment to humanity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people think it’s the government’s responsibility to buy them stuff?

Because we are in an unprecedented time where we have the technology and resources to provide basic human needs to everyone, and some of us see it as unconscionable not to do so when we are able. Food, shelter, clothing, education, healthcare, there is no scarcity problem, only a distribution problem. The government can correct that problem therefore the government needs to correct that problem, anything else is a failure of its duty to its citizens.

Hear, hear!

No reason to make people suffer when food, housing, clothes, schooling and healthcare are plentiful. We owe it to those who are without and the best way to make sure people get these necessities is good government.

This is what happens when you raise a generation where everyone gets a trophy.

As a liberal Democrat, I find this sentiment embarrassing and the reason why we barely won the last election and will lose the next.

What happens? People realize letting your fellow humans starve and freeze for greater profits isn't in our society's best interest?

I find anyone who thinks that basic necessities should be profit generating commodities an embarrassment to humanity.

Farmers shouldn't make a profit? Clothes makers shouldn't make a profit? Home builders shouldn't make a profit? Energy producers shouldn't make a profit?

Wait, why should people do any of this at all? Are you harmed by these profiteers in any way? If so, how?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people think it’s the government’s responsibility to buy them stuff?

Because we are in an unprecedented time where we have the technology and resources to provide basic human needs to everyone, and some of us see it as unconscionable not to do so when we are able. Food, shelter, clothing, education, healthcare, there is no scarcity problem, only a distribution problem. The government can correct that problem therefore the government needs to correct that problem, anything else is a failure of its duty to its citizens.

Hear, hear!

No reason to make people suffer when food, housing, clothes, schooling and healthcare are plentiful. We owe it to those who are without and the best way to make sure people get these necessities is good government.

This is what happens when you raise a generation where everyone gets a trophy.

As a liberal Democrat, I find this sentiment embarrassing and the reason why we barely won the last election and will lose the next.

What happens? People realize letting your fellow humans starve and freeze for greater profits isn't in our society's best interest?

I find anyone who thinks that basic necessities should be profit generating commodities an embarrassment to humanity.

And I find it an embarrassment that some people watch the same mistakes being made over and over in history and want to repeat them. Do you understand human nature at all? Do you understand that the reason that food, housing, clothing, schooling and healthcare are plentiful is because people who were pursuing their self interest made innovations that improved production? Have you not noticed that when societies collectivize, famine ensues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

It’s also very funny to me that they always mention Amsterdam but never Rotterdam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

It’s also very funny to me that they always mention Amsterdam but never Rotterdam.

Given the ties of the political consultant firm that works closely with the DC Smart Growth industry, surprised that Palm Beach, Kiev and Moscow aren't mentioned also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway. There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign. The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295? not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign. I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back. The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!). I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway. There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign. The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295? not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign. I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back. The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!). I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.

Urbanists talk a good game about traffic safety, but then why the "Smart Growth" Bowser Administration hostile to more speed bumps in residential neighborhoods? Why did Bowser mismanage and not enforce the Safe Streets program and then end it, when better-run cities have used similar programs as a starting point to creating safer, more walkable neighborhoods. Why does the Bowser Administration refuse even to consider traffic calming along collector streets, along which many of DC's public and independent school are located?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway. There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign. The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295? not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign. I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back. The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!). I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.

Urbanists talk a good game about traffic safety, but then why the "Smart Growth" Bowser Administration hostile to more speed bumps in residential neighborhoods? Why did Bowser mismanage and not enforce the Safe Streets program and then end it, when better-run cities have used similar programs as a starting point to creating safer, more walkable neighborhoods. Why does the Bowser Administration refuse even to consider traffic calming along collector streets, along which many of DC's public and independent school are located?

When’s the last time you think Bowser rode public transit? It’s all self interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway. There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign. The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295? not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign. I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back. The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!). I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.

Urbanists talk a good game about traffic safety, but then why the "Smart Growth" Bowser Administration hostile to more speed bumps in residential neighborhoods? Why did Bowser mismanage and not enforce the Safe Streets program and then end it, when better-run cities have used similar programs as a starting point to creating safer, more walkable neighborhoods. Why does the Bowser Administration refuse even to consider traffic calming along collector streets, along which many of DC's public and independent school are located?

If you think the Bowser administration embraces the principles of smart growth, I have a bridge to sell you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

It’s also very funny to me that they always mention Amsterdam but never Rotterdam.

The YouTuber specifically discusses Rotterdam in this video:

https://youtu.be/22ovt1EMULY

The fact that Rotterdam exists makes an excellent study on various design upsides and downsides as it is all within the same country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city. I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc. Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you. I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway. There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign. The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295? not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign. I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back. The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!). I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.

Urbanists talk a good game about traffic safety, but then why the "Smart Growth" Bowser Administration hostile to more speed bumps in residential neighborhoods? Why did Bowser mismanage and not enforce the Safe Streets program and then end it, when better-run cities have used similar programs as a starting point to creating safer, more walkable neighborhoods. Why does the Bowser Administration refuse even to consider traffic calming along collector streets, along which many of DC's public and independent school are located?

Bowser is an idiot.

You need a Japanese or Dutch city administrator to make things work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.

It’s also very funny to me that they always mention Amsterdam but never Rotterdam.

The YouTuber specifically discusses Rotterdam in this video:

https://youtu.be/22ovt1EMULY

The fact that Rotterdam exists makes an excellent study on various design upsides and downsides as it is all within the same country.

I am rolling my eyes at you because effing LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Urbanists talk a good game about traffic safety, but then why the "Smart Growth" Bowser Administration hostile to more speed bumps in residential neighborhoods? Why did Bowser mismanage and not enforce the Safe Streets program and then end it, when better-run cities have used similar programs as a starting point to creating safer, more walkable neighborhoods. Why does the Bowser Administration refuse even to consider traffic calming along collector streets, along which many of DC's public and independent school are located?

Yes, I think that's why you'll find that most actual people who embrace the ideas of smart growth, as opposed to the caricature version of those people that's mostly being argued with here as a straw man, are extremely unhappy with the Bowser administration, which has done almost nothing to improve street safety for non-car uses and done very little to encourage or build affordable housing.