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mcsvbff bebh's avatar

Freezing the rent in a city with a housing crisis is insanely stupid policy. I will not vote for a candidate whose main policy preoccupation is a terrible idea.

Cuomo is a very bad person and he'll be a bad mayor but he's status quo and none of his ideas are as destructive as Mamdani.

Rank Zellnor, Lander, Adams, Tilson, and in the end, either leave it blank or rank Cuomo.

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

To be clear here, Cuomo, for all his flaws, is better than mamdani. I understand not ranking him on top, but skipping Cuomo completely is dangerous. Mamdani combines the policies of Brandon Johnson whose effects made him the most hated mayor in America) with both laziness and incompetence (even his fellow leftist legislators dismiss him as unserious) and a truly horrific level of antisemitism (he refused to condemn both the Holocaust and the recent DC terrorist attack). I understand finding Cuomo distasteful but please, rank him somewhere on your ballot. Mamdani would be a disaster.

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Gabriel Kahane's avatar

I can’t speak to the allegations of lack of gravitas, but the claims about his alleged antisemitism are easily refuted.

https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1925512772743258616

https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1751236676209291339

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Stonewall's avatar

Cuomo is a STRAIGHT UP CRIMINAL.

ANYONE BUT CUOMO

That said

Vote Mamdani

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Jake's avatar

Electric buses are certainly better for the environment, and I’ll buy that they’re likely easier to maintain, but how are they faster?

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Eli Miller's avatar

Fair point. I link to a report that says they “increase reliability,” ie they break down less often in the middle of a route. I think they are also quieter and less polluting, which makes it an easier sell to open up new routes in the future. But the main point is just that the city needs more buses to run service more frequently (not the same as speed) and these are the buses it makes the most sense to buy from a cost effectiveness standpoint

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Walter Goldberg's avatar

Not a bus expert, but I figure based on EVs that electric buses would accelerate more quickly than non-electric buses, which would result in a lot of tiny gains for the type of stop-start traffic that buses face in NYC

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Bennie's avatar

I took bus driving lessons for my (unused as yet) commercial drivers license. You don’t want passengers flying around the bus as you peel away from a stop. Also, if you are at a stoplight, once it turns green, you let the car next to you go first to be the canary in the coal mine in case someone on the cross street was racing through the intersection to beat the light.

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Primary School's avatar

Eli, could you argue that Adrienne Adams's bus plan is subject to the same pitfalls of Democratic governance critiqued in Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance? In that it subsidizes demand without an equal investment in supply, putting the burden of MTA funding primarily on a middle income rider also struggling with affordability and not making real progress on fixing perpetual budget shortages?

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Eli Miller's avatar

No there’s plenty of excess supply buses and trains are not filled to capacity

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Ellen Bender's avatar

So many NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Substacks today! I'm looking forward to the RCV issue. I'm getting so many calls and texts about how to rank to avoid Cuomo.

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Noah's avatar

Avoid Cuomo by not ranking him anywhere and fill all 5 spots with 5 other names (including Mamdani since he prob has the only chance to hit 50%). That's how we avoid Cuomo!

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