Posted on 01/18/2024 2:25:58 PM PST by Rummyfan
doesn’t matter which big American city you go to these days, most are in absolutely horrendous condition. The public transportation system stinks of human waste. My old friend Professor Paul Magelli from the University of Illinois told me that when he took the Amtrak from Champaign to Chicago, it smelled like “piss”. Trains in other countries didn’t smell like that.
Richard Florida is a big urbanologist. He is an elite for sure. He tweeted out this article and it is worth reading. The author of the article is aware of what is happening in American cities, but like Richard Florida, totally unaware of what is causing it.
The author cites “regulations”. Richard Florida in his tweet decries the “centralization policies” of big cities.
(Excerpt) Read more at jeffreycarter.substack.com ...
It’s not new, though it’s worse now.
In the late 80s-early 90s I met a woman from France who complained about how dirty DC was. She said that in her country, if you were stuck in a traffic jam, there were nice things to look at; but here everything was filthy.
Of course, there are parts of Paris now that are really filthy, too.
“According to plan”
True. But our cities got better. From 2000-2020.
Good article, good comments.
Yes; Union Station in DC was a wonderful place to go or be stuck if your Metro train broke down. Now it’s a homeless camp.
Cities are for people crazy enough to live in them. The rest have left by now. We left in 2009.
I have family south of Atlanta in Clayton County. They NEVER go into Atlanta but they know why they don’t.
Squalid....
Mayor Adams: Whatever that word means I think I’m finally getting recognition for my leadership here.
Coming from a Frenchwoman that is something.
I haven’t been in or to a city since the day I retired many years ago. And I have no intention of going to one in the future.
Floors…..
DC is probably the best example here. They did a great job of cleaning up the city. Now all the federal employees are working at home. The cops are no longer enforcing the law. All the restaurants are closing now. The Wizards and the Capitals are relocating to nearby Virginia in 2028.
Before COVID and the BLM riots, there was talk that cities would have a renaissance. Suburbanites would retire, downsize, sell their homes and move into or closer to the cities. That’s not going to happen now.
And what possible justification could there be for opening the border when we already have so many people sleeping in the streets?
You mean big-shot democrats can’t run anything? Every city they gain control of quickly becomes a shithole.
It’s been intermittently a disaster since the first Home Rule mayor, Walter Washington, lost out to Marion Barry. Some have done better than others; but the current one is a dimwit disaster. (I say that as one who, when Bowser was first elected, had hopes that she would do a good job. But she’s turned out to be just another political hack whose backbone can’t stand up to anything.)
No they cannot run anything. They can however wring every dollar of graft out of a system while leaving a dried-out useless husk for the citizens to deal with.
I must admit, I’ve always wanted to go to Moscow to see their subway stations. You can bet they’re as clean as a whistle.
It was quite a while ago...
Further, the people who keep electing deserve what they get. But does it have to effect all of us?!
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