NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.
What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?
When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.
he's human. i'm pretty sure we all feel like this sometimes. yeah, sure, leaving isn't a real option, but a LOT of leftists have days where they just want to say fuck it and give up on everything because it all looks impossible - the difference is that most of us don't have our doomery breakdowns broadcast to thousands of people
he's not having a moment though, this is just what he believes, as far as I can tell. And he's saying this not as someone who fought for better urbanism and failed, but from Amsterdam, as someone with a cushy job and the ability to move wherever he wanted who just left and didn't fight. And that's not to say he's wrong. US/Canada are not particularly responsive to pressure on this issue, but he's also only considering the activism of going to council meetings and putting up yard signs, and maybe in the extreme case a little rally outside city hall, he's not considering urbanism as part of a socialist movement that goes beyond petitioning the liberal government.