“Why am I so angry? My 11-year-old-son was killed by a reckless driver on a I-95 and I almost died also, and I did not ask everybody in Connecticut to give up their cars,” she said.
You should have. And by opposing traffic calming projects like this, you're only condemning someone else's 11-year-old son to the same fate.
Look, her kid died so yours should too. Stopping kids from getting killed by cars wouldn't be fair to all the kids who have already been killed by cars.
Oh, look, it's like a little small scale representation of the US in general. You've got:
-Frustrated young people with reasonable takes
-Outnumbered by angry old rich people with nothing better to do than complain that government isn't catering to their and only their exact needs.
-Working age adults were too busy, burned out, and broke to attend.
The bit where the guy is saying he didn't know (or care) about the change because he fled to his second home during COVID really just sends it, I think.
This is my neighborhood, so I apologize for not knowing about (or attending) this awful-looking meeting. Needless to say these obnoxious attendees are a loud minority that don't represent the community.
edit: just signed up to help out with ParkToPark103 going forward.
"Under my window alone I've had a shootout — guns blazing between cars. So my understanding is you'll have benches in the middle of the street and people can gather. It's not a great place between Amsterdam and Broadway to open up to the nefarious folks, you know."
God this is frustrating. Literally sees problems happening with the cars and somehow assumes it will be worse without the cars.
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