Single issue voter
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Hello,
Can someone tell me who caters least to families, children, and "no turn between 7-9 a.m." signs in the upcoming election?
Thanks!
Can someone tell me who caters least to families, children, and "no turn between 7-9 a.m." signs in the upcoming election?
Thanks!
Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 05:55 pm (UTC)Do you run away from everything you don't like, or just encourage others to do so? Totes obnoxious.
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 06:07 pm (UTC)You complaining will not change the makeup of the town
Traditionally, complaining and raising awareness are the main things that change a town.
nor will it change the attitudes of the rest of the people who live there.
I feel sort of bad that you don't believe in yourself enough to conceive being able to change someone's mind.
Nor do I think your caterwauling will have any affect on the school administrators who want to protect their student's safety.
Besides your disturbing mob mentality and passive aggressiveness, only one point remains to be made.
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 06:41 pm (UTC)I first learned it over 10 years ago in San Francisco, but I am using definition #4. I thought it was a fairly common and widely used term.
I am tired of having to deal with legislation favouring parents/children while those of us who choose not to reproduce end up being taxed for it.
Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 06:45 pm (UTC)I first learned it over 10 years ago in San Francisco, but I am using definition #4. I thought it was a fairly common and widely used term.
By breaks I basically mean taxes; not just the tax cuts you get if you have children but also the fact that if legislation passes to fund something like an elementary school, people without children will have to pay as much of their taxes to fund it as people who have children...and you know, that just doesn't seem fair to me. People who drive pay for maintaining the roads (tolls, license fees, gas taxes), people who smoke or drink pay taxes on that; you don't see non-smokers or not-drinkers helping to pay the liquor and tobacco taxes, and yet, I have to vote for something that supports something I choose not to do.
*shrug* sorry. I'm just seeing the point of the OP and expanding upon it.
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:52 pm (UTC)Cambridge recently extended the no-right-turn hours to 3-7 pm (formerly 4-6 pm). Now things are much worse between 6 and 7 pm -- traffic backs up Route 16 onto Route 2 past the bowling alley.
When they ban the use of alternate routes, why can't they also try to fix the underlying problem on the main route?
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 06:56 pm (UTC)And then there are the drivers who don't stop for uncontrolled (no walk/don't walk lights) crosswalks, no matter how many people are in them ...
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:59 pm (UTC)I think a lot of drivers tend to miss the point that most of what hey see as "annoying" in terms of traffic engineering in Cambridge and Somerville is really just the city's attempts to make things easier and safer for pedestrians at the expense of drivers so as to encourage more people to walk or take public transit instead of driving in the first place. IMHO people who say that pedestrians should suck it up so that drivers can drive through the city faster are barking up the wrong tree/living in the wrong city.
Additionally, there is a definite finite number of cars per hour that all cities can "process" on their streets. Walking and public transit have no such limitation (or at least in the case of PT, it is so much higher than our current usage that it is not worthwhile to consider), so engineering more efficient roads is not really in the best interest of the politicians of cities like Somerville and Cambridge because they are essentially fighting a losing battle. Say you re-engineer things so that the roads can handle 10 percent more cars per hour, so then the driving population goes up by 10 percent, but achieving the next 10 percent increase in roadway efficiency is 10 times as expensive as the last 10 percent increase, so that approach isn't really financially sustainable.
In other words, if you don't like driving in the city, why not explore alternate modes of transportation?
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Date: 2008-09-15 06:59 pm (UTC)Re: ;-)
Date: 2008-09-15 06:59 pm (UTC)seriously, do kids parents really not teach them to look before crossing the street and to, uh, NOT play in traffic anymore?
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:01 pm (UTC)