exaaaaaactly. this, all the way. (i wrote the bollard post.) > It's actually much crazier, but you will find it hard to believe. I kept having this experienc

exaaaaaactly. this, all the way. (i wrote the bollard post.) > It's actually much crazier, but you will find it hard to believe. I kept having this experience, as professional, licensed engineers would tell me, with their whole mouth, and a straight face, things like "we cannot protect pedestrians because it might hurt a car." Me: Who _the fuck_ do you think drives the cars? The false dichotomy in america between 'pedestrians' and 'cars' is entirely downstream of the class-based ethnic cleansing ushered in by municipal planning agencies in the 1920s-1960s. They couldn't say "we don't want black people here", but they could say "we want only the kinds of people who drive cars _here_".