As an occasional driveway shop-vac operator, the way these doors open, the floating chairs and the generous ride height makes it by far the easiest car to vacuum ever.

Seen my first X7 in the wild the other day and the grille is far less repulsive in real. Rest of the car is also pretty nice, look smaller than it is.

I’m not buying a car that costs $70,000... because I can’t afford one.

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“making a call to our web team.”

Same with the city I work for (Houston suburb). We’re only about 33K in population and don’t have many crosswalk buttons, but exactly 0% are functional.

In NYC we know that button’s not connected to anything.

In NYC, cops are suspicious if you don’t jaywalk.

When I briefly lived in NY a long time ago, I was shamed by strangers for not knowing this. I told them “I come from a land of absurdly broad streets where the ONLY WAY to be given enough time to cross is to push the button.” and they looked at me with the contempt that can only be expressed by seasoned New Yorkers…

In Boston, it’s well known that the buttons don’t do a thing. Also not a thing? Jaywalking. You could do it in front of a cop, ASK them to ticked you and they’d still just look at you with a look of, stop wasting my time.  

Was just going to mention that when they automated the vast majority of the walk signals in NYC they left the buttons in place. Not only was it cheaper than removing them, the few they did remove lead to complaints, even when people were told they didn’t impact the light.

“since I’m not in the business of re-using old U-bolts”

I think you’re the first to suggest the Audi TT, which is pretty surprising.  Everyone’s forgotten them, it seems. 

Just the fact that they keep taxing the fuck out of drivers rather than incentivize car pooling, using public transit or tax breaks for businesses that shift to telecommuting shows how disingenuous they are about actually reducing traffic. 

Exactly...I work 10pm - 4am but the commuter trains stop at 2am and don’t start again until after 5am so here I am driving into the city for work. 

Fixing the subways and attracting passengers benefits drivers, too. The first subways were built over a century ago because New York’s streets had become so congested. In 2017, there were an average of 5.6 million trips each weekday on the subway. Assuming 2 rides/day/person, that’s 2.8 million people.  Can you…

If all the money paid in taxes by NY residents around the NYC area were spent in the NYC area, you would be amazed at your quality of life. But like the Blue states subsidizing the Red states, downstate NY subsidizes upstate NY. 

Apparently paying for those stupid large touch screens that tell you when the train is not coming.

The MTA budget also includes maintenance on the bridges, which are currently free. Congestion pricing would actually make things more fair.

No public transit system can pay for itself based on rider fares alone.  Every single one is subsidized.