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by jeroenhd 3 days ago
This article is the most engineered rage bait I've seen so far. We've got 15 minute cities, COVID, work from home, "who pays for it" for public services, congestion pricing, somehow even NATO and the WHO got mentioned.

Add some outrage over bike paths (for or against) and this post will circulate reddit for weeks!

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It's just conservative ideology
The weird thing is that it’s not. The author also touts congestion fees so that the wealthy subsidize public transit as a good thing.

It seems to just be a disorganized jumble of thoughts. He mentions hyperloop as an emerging transit technology for traveling around cities as if hyperloop is some kind of local bus alternative.

IDK about conservative, it'd paint it more closely as suburbanite idealogy. A lot of overlap, but not useful to confuse the two. It's the kind of quips I hear from people who only every drive into the city for a ball game or meetup.

But the article itself just seems confused about what a 15-minute city even is.