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"White Female Mamdani"?
Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.
Daily Mail is pure garbage.
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.
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
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.
Oh no, I see it.
They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.
In one line I got:
She's comparable to current rockstar mayor
She fixed bus service
She hersekf uses bus service
She noticed a problem and fixed it
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.
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.
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.
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.
The GOP’s worst insult was comparing her to the coolest mayor in recent memory. over a bus lane.
lol
Isn’t Mamdani doing extremely well as mayor?
So isn’t this a compliment?
The only thing I learned from that headline is that The Daily Mail is racist trash.
good in her, my IQ was lowered a little more reading that screenshots though.
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 Mail was the first UK paper to make a push for the US online market. They are one of the most-read sites and have significant presence there.
The author might as well join the Fascist Party at this point. Forget dogwhistles, bro bonged the whole structure down. Along with the bell.
It's the Daily Mail, I'm pretty sure they're already there
Gets elected to mayor, fixes the bug, resigns.
But whatever are we gonna do now? Take the bus? That one's notoriously late!
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!