I often prefer to go for a journey on Friday however it’s somewhat moist out at this time:
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/qXHkUmPtax
— NYScanner (@nyscanner) September 29, 2023
You’re not purported to level this out, however flooding in Brooklyn is nothing new:
Again then it was streetcars:
And now it’s buses:
INSANE: This video was taken inside an @MTA bus on 18th Avenue and 60 Road in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/h3dpsOy2hG
— NYScanner (@nyscanner) September 29, 2023
Although so far as I do know there’s solely been one chocolate flood:
However give it time.
After all it’s human nature to really feel as if issues are progressively getting worse:
There isn’t any query that the hazards of motor autos have robbed kids of many freedoms, and proceed to rob kids of their lives. However nothing’s that straightforward, and 1923 was hardly an idyllic time for the kids of New York Metropolis:
Motorized vehicle deaths in New York Metropolis then have been far larger than they’re at this time–there have been “solely” 255 complete site visitors fatalities in 2022, and that’s with far fewer automobiles on the roads–and youngsters have been actually admonished to remain out of the streets:
Even in 1900, when there solely 8,000 registered motor autos in your complete United States (there have been solely 500 in all of New York State in accordance with one supply), trolleys killed over 100 individuals in Brooklyn alone:
You hear so much about how we “normalize site visitors violence” now, however again then it was so regular for trolleys to kill folks that they named a baseball group after it.
After all it’s true that within the olden days you could possibly get in much more hassle for killing somebody with a automobile. In outdated articles about drivers working individuals down they have been usually charged with severe crimes–as have been the trolley motormen and conductors, as per the aforementioned article. However is that this as a result of there was nonetheless a perception that streets have been for individuals and youngsters ought to be free to stroll and play in them? Or is it as a result of within the days earlier than unions and publicly-owned transit a personal firm was more than pleased to throw considered one of its workers beneath the bus? (Pun meant.) The truth that motorists at this time are sometimes shielded from the results of their actions by the legislation and the insurance coverage corporations could be infuriating and as such looks like a serious step backwards for humanity. However this transformation was pushed (pun meant) not solely by the automotive trade but additionally by our ever-evolving concepts about what constitutes due course of and the rights to which we’re entitled. In 1900, girls couldn’t vote. In 1927, the Supreme Courtroom upheld the state’s proper to forcibly sterilize the feebleminded. Racial segregation wasn’t outlawed till 1964, and homosexuality was unlawful in varied states properly into the twenty first century. I point out all this not as a result of I imagine the asshole who hit you along with his Hyundai shouldn’t be punished, however as a result of historic context is essential, and once you examine somebody being thrown in jail 100 years in the past it may be very naive to imagine the rationale for it was that the individuals holding the important thing had a extra extremely advanced sense of justice and humanity than we do at this time.
TLDR; it may be harmful to idealize the previous. Some issues have been higher then, whereas others have been worse. Means worse. There are 1,000,000 issues improper with automobiles and automotive tradition, and we should always endeavor to enhance them, however on stability I’d say children have it manner higher at this time than they did again within the days earlier than antibiotics when their lecturers might nonetheless beat the shit out of them and so they’d get run over by a trolley whereas limping dwelling.
After all, as one of many biking world’s foremost retrogrouches that is one thing I personally should continuously consider, and I’m usually responsible of romanticizing the parts of yore, and dismissing new stuff just because it’s new. Luckily, there are actually no ethical pitfalls in doing so, because it’s simply bike elements, and who am I actually hurting if I whine about, say, this?
Sure, lastly, now you’ll be able to give up fully to the algorithm whereas driving your bicycle:
Assuming you contemplate this a “bicycle:”
And also you contemplate this “biking:”
Sure, should you hate just about all the pieces about biking besides the looking-at-what’s-in-front-of-you half, that is the bike for you:
Appears like watching the screensaver in your Apple TV.
