my area is trying to change things, but whenever a positive step is attempted every boomer above the age of 60 comes out in force to throw a tantrum about it. the day of the pillow can't come soon enough.
like recently, they put in a foot/bike train straight through the middle of the city. great, right? But the boomers bitched about it so now you can only use it when the sun is up. when the sun goes down you have to either walk on the 45mile per hour street with no sidewalk (again, when theres no sun) or drive. In December, that means that path is only legal to use 9 hours per day.
theres also a huge NIMBY culture for roundabouts for some reason? We had a 4 way intersection that was basically impossible to ever cross from 2 ways because the perpendicular road was way too busy. The city is putting a roundabout there to solve this, and you would think the government just announced they are revoking social security or something. they took this as such a person offense, they really want a 4 way stop sign intersection for some reason??? which would block so many driveways with how forever backed up that intersection would be.
They've also been sitting on plans to convert the massive stroad into a 2 lane with a planted median buffer, but they can't get out of the planning stage because the old fucks are acting like its genocide.
also there's currently a "crisis" where these old shits keep calling the emergency number when they see an unaccompanied minor, meaning real emergencies get delayed responses.
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