• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Bikeped infrastructure increases business visibility and boosts economic activity pretty much without fail. Ditto for eliminating off-street parking requirements and even trimming down on-street parking.

    Even if it does increase congestion – which there’s really not very strong evidence it would – it’s good for those businesses & the city’s ledger to do so.

    So if you ever get a chance to speak in those meetings, come armed with the counterarguments. MPCs are more persuadable than many think.

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      1 year ago

      I wish I had the mental fortitude, but I’m a banged up vet with fucked nerves smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt - where bumfuck conservatives too broke to live in the country can shout over you about how taking away eagle pussy is communist but you’ll be arrested for firmly but politely saying “I disagree.”

      Just happened in the county school board, some dude in the audience stood up and shouted anti trans nonsense for 20 minutes to no consequence, then at the next meeting quiet activists holding a sign in the back row were forcibly removed, roughed up by the cops, and arrested for disturbing the peace.