scott finteresting argument for the left to lean into making public transit great to beat back the right. https://newrepublic.com/article/189842/public-transit-democrats-trump-climate
😀🚲@scott is this from 2017 😂
@enobacon it’s from yesterday
@scott well it doesn't seem to have mentioned bikes, so might as well have been written 20 years ago. We're not going to make transit work in the suburbs (most US cities) by wishing harder.
@enobacon depends on the suburb and subdivision, but I'm not sure it's completely hopeless, even there. But this is talking about cities.
@scott well if Portland is a "city", when I say suburbs, that's what I mean. We're not going to have a bus every five minutes to enough destinations that we can remain allergic to bikes.
@enobacon This is not either-or. You deserve both safe bike routes and buses every five minutes all over the city.
@scott one tail wags the dog while the other one costs a lot of money and doesn't get ridership when people can't bike to the station. Portland has supposedly been pro-bike and pro-transit / pro-gressive as cities go, and still just treats people like crap for choosing bikes even while the bus only comes every 30min (and also gets in your way while traveling at the same average speed as a bike.)
sanae 
(SF)