https://nitter.1d4.us/MotoristRights/status/1654660048788893699
the coalition for motorist rights have betrayed the car liberation movement by rejecting the right to drive drunk as fundamental to motorist identity
Airbags and seatbelts are added weight which prevent my car from driving as fast as possible. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
life*
*as long as you are tall enough to be seen by the driver of a ludicrously large pickup truck
I am God's Drunkest Driver. He will take me when his plan is complete.
Okay fuck tow companies tho. They got one thing correct.
Complete extortion racket.
In full socialism/communism no one would be bilked by the private contractors who get these contracts.
Financial preying upon the vulnerable: a hallmark of capitalism.
Forget who said it, but someone said on some podcast recently that every step you take in this country, someone is holding you upside down by your ankles and shaking coins out
My city has a service worker union that's using predatory towing as agitation target. There's no parking in the city for workers except for private garages that are $20/day, and most of us can't afford to live within bus range. Even then the busses stop running at 8 so anyone working later shifts is fucked anyways.
The only lots available for a lot of people are private lots that have predatory towing companies that prey on workers.
There’s a tow company in my town that’s gotten in trouble several times over decades for just towing cars illegally and still charging people to get them back.
A friend of mine had her car towed from outside a business she was still inside of and once she figured out it got towed and wasn’t just stolen, they sent her a security camera picture of some other random girl (who didn’t even look anything like my friend) walking by on the sidewalk and said “This was you leaving”
The only reason she got it back without paying is because she got her cop dad to go with her and he threatened them.
If a tow truck driver tows a car they shouldn’t it should be treated exactly the same as anyone else. Felony theft charge for the driver, and conspiracy charges for the owner.
The most surprising thing here is that this account hasn't bought a blue checkmark.
Motorists should not have rights. Driving in NYC is a privilege. :train-shining:
Kind of curious that Uber and Lift somehow do not fall under the umbrella of motorists, isn't it? Feels very face off in the sense that this is a colation based around ownership and money
One point I do agree with, is that it will be an unfair financial burden upon the working class.
NYC is and has always been a place in which everyone has to hustle to afford the exorbitant often obscene costs of living. The money’s in the city, so one is always having to haul oneself, and one’s things, in to do the work.
Maybe some kind of staggered pricing could work, like the way Scandinavian countries handle traffic and speeding offenses. Which is based on one’s earnings, so working class people aren’t destroyed by one stupid indiscretion. Rich people don’t give a fuck about tickets, so they can flout all laws.
The overall solution would seem to involve, as ever, the perpetual elephant in the room where this city is concerned: taxing the fucking rich!
I think this is making it a bit to simple. Most NYC residents don't own a car and seeing how car ownership increases with more money, it's, as usual, mostly poor working people who don't have one.
But they're still footing the bill for it. Space in NYC is ridicolously expensive, except of course, for cars.
I'll hand you there's people priced out of NYC who are now reliant on a car, but to put forth taht this is an unfair financial burden upon the working class in general is missing some layers here at least. It's also a good thing for many of them.
