OK but if you look at small cities with the highest crime rate, you won't see them on the density list I linked to below. My point was that there are other (and better) reasons for these things happening other than more people in an area

My man, I'm really not trying to get into an argument on a Monday morning. My original comment was to someone I like following on here because they usually have good insight to things. I just thought it was a bad reason they gave that someone was shot because.. there were more people in an area.

I just think there's probably more to it than than that. Because, again, if it was the case then NYC, Boston, San Francisco, and Miami would all have the highest crime rates

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density

Not necessarily. If that was the case then NYC would have the highest crime

Not quite

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/what-you-dont-know-cant-tif-you

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0516-tifs-baltimore-20220513-2sd7a7o4ungvzer66yucucd4yy-story.html

I see what you're saying. I've never come across that much animosity towards scooters but I guess I see some of the points. However, that is only solution to the issue. Also, most of those reasons could be removed if we focus on more bike lanes which would free up space for scooters as well. I think most pro-transit people would support that, yeah?

What's the unpopular opinion?

Maybe, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it

If it made a train go faster I would be for it.

>it shouldn't be hard to sell that to anyone, but for some reason it is.

But do you think it's a hard sell to the public transportation people or the car people? I feel like public transportation people would be ok with more scooters at a discounted price (they're more expensive than down in DC). I'm not sure why anyone that's for more public transit would be against scooters though and I haven't really seen that personally (though maybe you have). The people complaining about scooters are probably the car people.

I believe you and trust that you have but I just really haven't seen it I guess. Plus, as I've mentioned a few times, I think convincing hard line trolley people to do buses would still be easier than telling car people we're adding a bus lane or more buses

Regardless of what is built I think there will be disagreements with the details (what is put where and how often) but I really think transit people will want something built regardless. I'm not picky with public transportation. Tram, trolley, light rail, buses, bikes.. bring it all! The issue I get mad about is that a large majority of car people simply cannot wrap their heads around not driving a car and I get sick of the same excuses "where will I park? It's going to be more congested for cars. It's going to hurt businesses if we can't park right in front". Which is all BS. Hell in my other thread the one guy said I was being "polarizing" because I suggested that cars aren't the only ways to get around. Transit people complain about details while car people try to prevent any of it at all from happening and you're right.. I'm not entirely sure how to get through to many

NIMBYs usually don't want additional housing near them and it looks like housing is pretty similar in both. I don't see how this is a dream scenario or how it makes traveling more difficult but i might be missing something

I'm not really sure #2 is very common compared to #1. I don't know anyone that wants to bring back all of the streetcars? It may be neat to have one or two for the nostalgia and maybe for tourists but that would be it. But i think the public transportation people are far more open to changing from a subway to a bus route than a car person is to changing anything at all. This isn't a "both sides" argument

Parking is fine in Hampden. Just because you don't get a personal spot in front of every place you want to go doesn't mean it's bad. It's not the suburbs

I feel like most people just run into wine source quickly. No one needs to park for a long time there

No he has 6 feet and weighs 4300lbs

Lol

Nah, they're not.

https://cyclingfallacies.com/en/6/people-with-physical-disabilities-can%E2%80%99t-cycle

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/9/6/can-a-bike-friendly-city-be-disability-friendly-too%3fformat=amp

Lol out here trying to do straw man arguments when permit parking was to actually raise money for public transportation so this stuff improves. What a 🤡

Edit: dude blocks me because I call him out. Never claimed that if we charge people for parking then all of a sudden they can just take the bus. It's to raise money for public transportation and not just give away free parking

I know Little Havana rents out one of their back rooms (which has a bar) for birthdays because I went to one but I have no idea how much they charge

Seriously. But it was a long time ago when there were street cars

There was a time when they would come every 4-5 minutes. It makes me so sad to think what could have been

Oh no no, he's actually smarter than all of us here because he only planted that comment as a trap for him to block people, like me. See, not a loser at all!

Since you watched the game does that mean you also support slave labor?

Edit: lol this dude blocked me as some type of pathetic "gotcha". What a big brain

? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

Go ahead and look for yourself. Chicago isn't in the top five for anything, including murder, rape, burglary, robbery, or theft.