"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels." -- as if traffic isn't already hellish in NYC and in every other major city on the planet.
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In my country, if you don't make room for an ambulance, fire trunk, or PD vehicle in mission, you commit a crime.
In addition to the lack of siren and lights meaning they don’t get priority in this case, the important point is they can’t. The other cars have nowhere to go, no way to clear the path. I mean eventually they will, but an ambulance in this situation is delayed regardless of anyone’s best effort
That's why dedicated lanes for buses and emergency vehicles are such a good idea. Emergency vehicles can get where they need to go, but with more people travelling by bus, there will also be less cars and less congestion. Everybody wins.
Or if nothing else, a dedicated two-way bike lane still works infinitely better than a dead stop car lane.
There is a single car in front of the ambulance, and an opening in the bus lane one car length ahead. Those cars absolutely would and could make room for that ambulance.
A guide to sirens
Only you can help keep people in your community safe. Block and slow cop cars whenever possible.
If you block the police car you can prevent the bad thing from happening
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'Murica, where you'd rather let a crime happen than let a cop commit the crime.
Most theft in the US is wage theft. But cops aren't on their way to arrest the real criminals
Slight correction, police usually also means something bad has happened. Usually an accident that's already over and now needs processing, a robbery which you can only call after (most robbers don't say "go ahead and call the police, I'm about to mug you), murder victim has been found, murder was witnessed, shots fired heard in the distance, etc. Most of the time they can only show up after, take a report, maybe do a little investigating, and maybe find the guy wherever he went off to.
Sometimes you can call before, like if someone is kicking in your door and it takes a few swings or someone is having a suicidal crisis and is working up the nerve or whatever, technically hitting a silent alarm for a bank robbery would be "is happening" but we'll count it, but even then it still takes anywhere from 11min-30min for them to show up depending on where you are (last time I called it was over an hour in a city, after the event had happened,) and sometimes they don't even come until the next day in the sticks I visit frequently.
Police aren't actually that effective at *stopping" crime unless they just so happen to already be in the room when it happens (and that's assuming they're not the ones committing the crime themselves, which they also do more than anyone is comfortable with.)
Nope. Usually police are on their way to hurt someone who hasn't done anything wrong.
Phone calls from rich white Karens who saw someone walking in their neighborhood gasp while black!
Stop watching TV.
Oh now I get it, woosh. I thought it was implying they actually show up to stop things on the first read.
But also not really, they mostly collect reports for insurance RE: car crashes and theft as I noted, but that doesn't make as good of a news bulletin, so they don't report the endless amounts of that instead focusing on the bleeding leading and outrage bait.
But nice snarky comment, sure showed me! That'll show me for saying the police are ineffective at best by nature and sometimes the criminals themselves while being realistic, I meant to say every cop has a quota for how many black people to shoot before they can clock out for the day, that better?
Edit: Hold the fuck up, .nl? Your cops are supposedly fine wtf you talkin about? Are you misappropriating American problems for clout?! You doing ok bud?
My country in South America doesn't have an instance. Anyone can join this instance, not just the Dutch...
Oof alright fair, there's a pretty good chance yours are worse than ours down there!
In my country you only need to make room when the siren is sounding and the lights are flashing.
Otherwise it's just normal traffic, just like what seems to be happening in this picture.
Yes, and that's what I said, in a mission.
I once made room for an ambulance in NYC and the ambulance followed me to the side because the idea that someone would do that is a foreign there. Someone else then cut us both off before the ambulance got around me.
Same here in the US. But what the "witty" twitter poster fails to think about is that the ambulance isn't running code. No lights and sirens. No emergency.
Yeah and sometimes that's literally physically impossible in NYC