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I mean, fuck Buttigieg, but this is a pretty dangerous precedent.
Edit: c'mon people. He didn't do anything after the East Palestine disaster, he makes excuses for why we can't have high speed rail or even just a better Amtrak, and he hasn't done anything to reduce car centric design. He's the god damn secretary of transportation.
In all fairness, this doesn't really fall under the purview of the Secretary of Transportation.
I think most urban design and planning happens at the local level, and the federal DoT is mostly responsible for allocating funds to state and local city governments.
And I think it's not hard to argue that he did quite a bit towards reducing car-centric design as a mayor. Mayors have WAY more control over that stuff, in general. The DOTs are the DOTs. They're going to be conservative and they're going to waste money. They also don't really follow federal marching orders.
Biden/Buttigieg have pushed for more Amtrak investment than has happened in a long time, though, along with proposals for further expansion for local rail and BRT service. Just a typical case study in a progressive failing the leftist purity test.
That's fair. I'm willing to concede that he doesn't have a major part to play in reducing car-centric design, though I think he could create general guidance for cities to follow
He's a McKinsey man...
The vast amount of issues with capitalism in our country can be traced back to young idiots in their 20s working for McKinsey telling CEOs the best thing they can do in any situation is layoffs is raising CEO pay.
They've also worked for pretty much every evil organization, including the Saudi government
John Oliver just did an episode on it a few weeks ago.
It sucks that legitimate critism of democrats makes you sound like unhinged MAGA lunatic. Not that it's ever really gonna be a choice between fascism or their bebal incompetent feet dragging corruption, just a sad reality of our crappy two party system.
As an outsider, it looks like the US only has a one party system now. One party and a group of spiteful, contrarian fascists trying to overthrow its democracy.
As an insider, I can confirm that assessment is pretty accurate.
I mean fake outrage is fun?
At least go after the correct boogeyman.
I don't understand what you mean. He's in THE position to make changes to how this country handles transportation, and he hasn't done much of anything. He even made excuses for why trains can't have safer brakes or more stringent chemical safety requirements. I don't place the brunt of these issues on him, but he's doing fuck-all about them.
Take my upvote. The dude is sucks.