“White Female Mamdani”?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
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“Takes away lane of road from motorists” is a wild way to say “Created a bus lane”. These people need help.
Let me get my daily fail headline translator out real quick:
“Came under fire” == “somebody tweeted”
“Fury” == “a bot tweeted”
“Outrage” == “one of our staff tweeted”
“Slammed” == “somebody liked our tweet”
“White female mamdani” is just fucking insane 💀 Also seattle is extremely woke compared to the rest of the us so good luck creating backlash. Its gonna be all the people from several states away who have nothing to do with it that complain. Same thing with NY, a lot of the people saying how “new york will fall” were from texas and whatever.
The fuck is the Daily Mail doing writing about the USA anyway? You’re a British shite rag, stay in your lane.
Probably why I have no idea what a white female mamdani even is. Why write it if we’re not going to even understand it over here…
That’s crappy newspapers for you I suppose!
The author might as well join the Fascist Party at this point. Forget dogwhistles, bro bonged the whole structure down. Along with the bell.
Daily Hate doing its thing with "White Female Mamdani
Each of those three words designed to reinforce the rightwing views How dare a WOMAN make decisions! Suggests that weak willed white people being converted to Brown people thinking! We should not allow bus lanes even though they routinely carry 20% of the population.
How dare she make it cheaper and more convenient to take public transit than it is to own a $40,000 initial cost constant money hole!
But whatever are we gonna do now? Take the bus? That one’s notoriously late!
good in her, my IQ was lowered a little more reading that screenshots though.
I legit thought this was in the shitpost community reading that headline lmao
How dare you take away my lane! I love only 3 things: my god, my truck and my wife, in that exact order. Yeeehaw. Busses are for the gays and I ain’t gay mister.
(sorry for the AI slop)
As a longtime former resident of the city for which this article is featured, I am grateful to happily be in the former camp. I totally get what the people voted for and what they received. Buuuuut the hardline take with some progressives truly ventures into theee utmost fascist territory, if I am to be speaking honestly the level of hostility towards those (myself included) who cannot simply make their lives adjust to public transit and to recycling/reusing every single item utilized in the course of a day is somewhat off putting. Many cannot make their daily routines align with what is considered progressive, environmentally conscious and aware. This type of “selfish” behavior is frequently met with the type disgust and disdain that only truly miserable souls seem to enjoy sharing in.
I’m a construction worker since 2011 working almost all my projects in Seattle and Bellevue. These decisions have always been at my sacrifice as I cannot take the bus to work.
I love that they make this seem like an unprecedented move for her. It’s literally on her campaign site.
She used to be the president of the Seattle transit riders union! It is very on brand for her to improve transit, and likely part of the reason she was voted in.
That’s my mayor! On the campaign trail, she raced the eight (the bus she is adding a lane for) by walking while holding her child, and beat the bus to the end of its route. The bus lane is very needed, and she is cool as hell for delivering on her campaign promises.
My mayor too! She was the first politician that I canvassed for. I had a blast.
It was quite a popular race!
As someone commuting to the city from the Eastside (now taking the train every day), I was unfamiliar with the sad state of the 8 line before this post.
There’s a dedicated website: https://fixthel8.com/
I learned from that site that all-girl punk band Tacocat wrote a song called F. U. #8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRFlROqgFwo
If you can best a bus in a footrace, that bus route needs to be improved. As simple as that.
My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus (when starting at the same time) but the waiting time should not make the bus slower.
Edited: wording
Its a good rule of thumb. I ride an hour in to work (on an e-scooter) because it is faster than that bus during rush hour. Outside of rush hour though, the bus beats me every time. It’d be cool if I could become mayor to add a bus lane for that route. And all the other routes that need it tbh.
Maybe I’m just a dumbass, but I think your rule of thumb is busted?
X should be slower than A, but should not be faster than A + B.
Isn’t slower the same as “not faster”? I think it should be slower than A, but faster than A + B. So between A and A + B.
Or “the bus should be faster if it’s already here, but cycling should be faster if you’d have to wait for the bus”. I think that’s what you were going for.
Yeah, almost. Cycling shouldn’t be much faster than having to wait. If it is, either the route has too many stops or a low frequency.
My average cycle speed at around 10 kmph (minimal effort, no hills, some red lights) and if a bus can’t match this…
Give it better signalling, dedicated lanes to skip traffic, etc.
My ‘can’t hold attention long enough to read all the words’ brain auto-converted it to
My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus but should not be slower than waiting time + the ride.
which must be what they meant.
Okay, I’m not the only one who was confused there for a sec
Bike with parkin can and often should be faster start to destination than walking+bus+walking at least comzared to city buses, it’s different with buses who are allowed to go faster than 50 km/h
Some cities have abysmal frequencies. So you would be waiting for 20 minutes or more
My rule of thumb is that within a city, a bus (other than BRT) is likely roughly the same speed as a bike, assuming good bike routes.
If the bikes are stopping regularly because of red lights, that will obviously change.
With all the stops, cycling is usually faster unless the route is uphill or you really don’t have a lot of stops and probably need more.
How far apart are you stops? It’ll they are too close, I can see this happen. ~5 minute walking?
if a bicycle is slower than a bus, then it is definitely slower than waiting+taking a bus
Think you got yourself mixed around there.
no?
counterpoint: cycling takes 10 minutes, bus takes 5 minutes, at this point cycling is slower than the bus. waiting for the bus takes 8 minutes, now cycling is faster than waiting + ride time
I have done similar in my city (sans baby). I had like a 3 mile commute and while usually the bus would get a ahead of me before I got to work I had a thing where if I got to 2 miles in im not taking the bus for the last mile. That situation was not uncommon. I would stop and look behind so if it was close to two miles and I saw it I might still take it.
I have done something similar on Oxford Street.
I suspect this is not the same.
Hell yeah.
We have a dedicated lane for our streetcar line here in KC and it is glorious.
Of course, it’s Daily Mail, good only as paper in the privy.
They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.
In one line I got:
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She’s comparable to current rockstar mayor
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She fixed bus service
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She hersekf uses bus service
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She noticed a problem and fixed it
- She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary, but wisely chooses to ride the bus because of its many benefits to society
If you’ve been to downtown Seattle you know why people don’t drive there.
Traffic? The worst intersections I’ve seen in the country? The fact that when you get there parking for an hour often costs more than a day pass for the train and bus?
Easy solution: just drive toward Denny & Stewart then get out of your car. By the time you’re back from whatever you were doing there you may be able to move forward a bit. Free parking!
I’m pretty sure that’s how people use the I5 in Seattle.
She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary
Definitely couldn’t before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.
Right, good article, she couldn’t then but can now, yet she chooses not to in order to help the lives of regular people
To give more history about this route, there is a annual "race the 8! event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on the worst part of its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it to its designations. Folks have beat it juggling, walking backwards, dancing, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.
This route serves an intensely dense part of the city and has been failing people for years. The city/county have been making piddly, empty changes for nearly a decade that fixed nothing, like adding a 1 block bus lane. Yup, one block only.
The bus is regularly 30-40 minutes late, which makes using it miserable and unreliable. The reason its route is terrible is that there is a highway onramp thats right there near Amazon HQ. So for years and years people commuting in and out of the city have been prioritized over people who live in it, and no previous mayor had the stones to push back and fix it for actual residents.
It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.
I agree with everything you say until the end. It’s disingenuous to say that residents do not take the highway. It runs through the middle of the city! We all take the damn highway.
Ehh, way more residents take or would take that bus then would use that on ramp. Its mainly an ingress point to the freeway for people who commute.
The ramp isnt even closing, its just being sanely re-routed to not cause such a clusterfuck.
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The Daily Heil is super reliable, let’s put it like that.
Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she… Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don’t get how these people think that’s such a bad thing.
Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people “that haven’t worked hard enough for it.” They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that “its for the poors.”
Oh I know their logic. I just don’t get their logic cause it’s fucking dumb.
