Posted Oct 20, 2020, 7:02 PM
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Resident Moron
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 2,320
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I think the issue for the PACs that fight bond proposals are they used to come in two varieties:
1) Taxes are bad
2) NIMBY 🞵🞵🞵🞵
#1 only really works on a small % of the city that owns extremely expensive houses and dislikes taxes on said houses - and really really works well for property developers/landlords who get hit the hardest. But its not enough of the population in a left-leaning city that is generally pro government projects.
#2 used to be their bread and butter to defeat everyone (I dont hate light rail, but this light rail isn't the one) - but I think most of the citizens have stopped falling for their lies and have realized that every proposal is the "wrong one".
So the new path forward seems to be some hand-waive about future technology coming to magic away all the problems with big cities. It's the same people making new arguments in bad faith to get the result they want.
Like, our worst case scenario is in 30 years no one needs mass transit anymore and we can pivot away from it.
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