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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Downtown is dying. Vacancy rates are throw the roof, which are driving down property values which will mean radically lower property tax revenues, which will blow a giant hole in the city's budget. But, sure, let's focus on...[checks notes]...making buses free?

This is what it's like to be ruled by children. 
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What is the city government supposed to do to get workers back in empty offices, exactly?[/quote]

Isn't that kind of their job to figure these things out?[/quote]

Their job to figure out how to get companies to change remote-work policies that they were forced to implement during an unexpected global pandemic and proved very popular? That seems a bit beyond the purview of city government somehow, no? Their job is to figure out what they need to do to adjust to a new reality in how people work.[/quote]

This. Their job is to figure out how to make sure the city makes enough money to fund all their nutty ideas when their tax base is no longer there.[/quote]

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