"White Female Mamdani"?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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Bus lanes in my town are so extremely wasteful, they sit empty for 56 minutes every hour (if a bus passes once every 15 minutes). And are maybe sometimes used by taxi’s or the police. That’s it.
So the buses are running on time, thus offering a viable alternative to cars, and the reduced lane is reversing the induced demand for cars? Based as hell
Make places for people, not cars
Wasteful, or extremely efficient? The bus keeps moving. Meanwhile, each of the parked cars sits idle 95% of the day, taking up tons of valuable real estate.
So you're saying a bus, which on average can support a much larger volume of people than cars can, are running consistently on time, and the lanes are also providing routes that allow emergency responders (not just cops, remember that ambulances can use these lanes too) to get to where they're going without having to wait in traffic as someone dies?
Not to mention that if the dedicated bus lanes didn't exist, bus service could be slow/inconsistent enough that all the people riding the bus would just switch back to cars, and now you've got way more cars on the road clogging it up again.
Why would you think this is a problem?
So emergency vehicles have a priority lane? Betcha that's saved a few lives.
So they're be more efficient if we made buses travel at 0.1mph, so they're be in the lanes more?