Trying to figure out how to unravel the political, cultural, and institutional brainworms of #CarSupremacy... with cars-for-brains democrats cancelling #CongestionPricing plans and trying to somehow fool themselves into making the DOTs solvent "with equity and climate as top priorities" is only going to further burden the poorest of kids with subsidies for the wealthiest of drivers. Agencies that build roads for cars are fundamentally unequipped to fix this problem & so is our political system.
What is it going to take to get through to elected officials and progressive transportation planners, that they're working with a machine that's been designed to build freeways through poor neighborhoods and coerce anyone who could afford it into cars? A machine made of #trafficEngineers and #police which then accreted a century of CYA, cultural, legal, and bureaucratic armor against change? Giving the DOT more money for safety won't ever get us out of #carSupremacy. It's designed to not.