Don’t understand why RB doesn’t do the same. I mean a 5 grid penalty is nothing in exchange for some extra hp.

Agree.  I’m pulling for Honda to go out on top, so Perez in 4th rather than 3rd was a slight bummer.  But to get Alonso up there, that’s a damn good trade off!

Perfectly stated.  Also, glad to see Alonzo up there.

so appropriate.  Last 2 races were Hamilton dominance, but Bottas can’t defend Verstappen to save his life.  Get the feeling this’ll come down to Hamilton in a faster car vs. 2 red bulls strategy.

The fact that Bottas wasn’t able to go for fastest lap might be huge.

OMG yes this sooo much! I can tell you first hand in my city (and I ride public transport regularly) that free transit shot occupancy way up - most buses running 95% occupancy during the summer.
...Unfortunately the buses have become a homeless shelter and public restroom.

Turns out, the biggest cost of bus/van transit is the driver, and smaller vehicles don’t save anything there. Hailing apps are  not particularly valuable on heavily traveled routes (you’ll probably get hails almost non-stop). And how’s that work for people who don’t have a working smartphone? Where I am, if there’s a 9…

In Seattle there was a ride free zone downtown for years; they had to abolish it when the buses became a rolling homeless shelter and insane asylum.

Now I believe that nothing should be free, as then the users treat it as it’s worth nothing, tragedy of the commons and all that.

A few years ago the French had that in mind with taxation.

The problem with making public transportation free is that it becomes a mobile homeless shelter. Seattle used to have a fare free zone in downtown, and it was finally canceled because of of this. Same thing happened in San Francisco when then mayor Gavin Newsom wanted to make all public transportation free.

The NYPD aren’t allowed to do anything about anything anymore. It might change now that Big Bird is leaving, but for the time being they are following the same policy as what occurred in Detroit in the 1980's/90's. The cost of actually engaging and preventing crime far outweighs the risk. They are instructed to…

That’s a great idea in theory, but there are associated costs. One would be the need for additional security/police presence of some sort. A lone bus driver can only do so much when an either mentally ill or someone under the influence refuses to leave a warm bus on a winter night. When things are free it takes away…

Also, why does it have a stripper pole?

It is you who is trying too hard to find something gm related to complain about. 

I don’t understand this site. There’s a dozen “thinkpieces” about how alphanumeric names suck and cars should have names, and now Adam here is saying he thinks the alphanumerics should stay. Lots of car names are stupid, but over time you get nostalgia for them and think they’re great.

Jalopnik has bitched for years that Cadillac should go back to named models, Jaoplnik now bitches that Cadillac names have gone too far. 

“But the harder Cadillac leans into this, the more I wish the alphanumerics stuck around.”

What? No “Magnifiq”?