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View submission: Improving walkability cost me an election
I can't speak to the questions in your last paragraph, but your story is important. We have the right ideas, but we haven't built as much of a constituency as we need.
I think of people blaming Kathy Hochul for overturning congestion pricing in New York. To some extent, they're right to blame her. But it's also true that we've failed rather dramatically to get ordinary voters on the side of congestion pricing.
Comment by SabbathBoiseSabbath at 11/11/2024 at 11:57 UTC
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This is an important point. I see far too many folks on this and other urbanist subs who just want to force their policy proposals without gaining the approval of a solid coalition of the public to support said proposals. It just doesn't work that way. You have to do the hard work of winning the hearts and minds, which can take a lot of time to do.