I definitely need a car to do my actual job, which frequently takes me to the Peninsula and the East Bay. But the commute to my main office in the FiDi takes 45-60 minutes via public transit and 15-30 via car. So by suggesting that I give up my car (or Uber / Lyft), you’re really saying that I should subtract 30-60…

All Phaetons will have their air suspensions at half-mast, in mourning.

Yes, but that’s certainly not my response. I would just like serious investment in light rail, subways, and pedestrian bridges before we start subtracting lanes from existing streets.

Well, $50k buys a lot of *water-cooled* Porsche, but not very much air-cooled.

It’s priced at right about what a 911SC with the wide-body option would go for, so you get the engine for free. An inspection will tell you quickly if the engine swap was professionally done, or a hack job.

As far as I can tell from my unhappy forays to the community hearings, the New Left Urbanists and the NIMBYs are all the same policy coalition. The young ones want all market-rate housing construction to stop and want to force me to ride a bike to work. The old ones want all market-rate housing construction to stop…

Municipal employees explicitly are preferred in the lottery rules. Those that are “connected” tend to be the ones that can keep applying over and over again. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/upshot/these-95-apartments-promised-affordable-rent-in-san-francisco-then-6580-people-applied.html?module=inline

That’s true enough, but irrelevant to the choices that we’re making today. Current residents are dealing with the current built environment, and the Transit First people are altering it in ways that make things worse.

Either way, this battle was already lost about three years ago when Porsche turbocharged the base-model 911 and Macan, but continued to call the highest-power versions “Turbo.” In the Macan the Turbo even has the same damn engine as the S and GTS version, just with more boost.

I think it’s a bicycle seat. So ... not not a sex toy?

Wait, did that Tesla owner really say that? Did you get a picture of this “hood scoop”?

Here in SF, attempts by the New Left Urbanists to take out parking spaces along 24th St. between Van Ness and Potrero, and replace them with rental bike racks, were deemed racist by the rabidly Latinx group Calle 24. Calle 24's point was that Hispanic dudes do all the trades work around here, and the plumbers /…

Yes, 100%. Most cities are delighted to have economic growth; they grow the infrastructure and allow private investment in more housing stock to accommodate. San Francisco just suppresses housing construction and subtracts roads. I guess the hope is that people just get miserable enough to move their companies to…

A well-functioning city government can advance more than one policy objective at one time.

“People would rather”...? No, our municipal governments in the US are spectacularly bad at implementing infrastructure, they do not allocate funds in a way that serves the needs of the actual citizens of the cities.

Bikes sound like a great idea until you have kids. Then ... well, its public transit only if its truly safe, otherwise you’re getting a car.

^^^ This.

Yeah, well, my SF commute would involve two buses and the T-Third if I did it via public transit. It would take 45 minutes and also cost about $8.00 each way.

This is a bad take. These “New Left Urbanist” planners definitely exist - they’re the ones forcing “Transit First!” on us here in San Francisco. Like many policies implemented by people who like to control other people, this one is misnamed. What it really means is “make driving suck as much as possible” without…

Nah, there are convertibles that fit the bill. (And thanks for the compliment on the 928!)