local government does its job

"But how is that even possible?"

I mean honestly that's just kind of a dumb take. Regardless of him being socialist or not the fact is he's just doing his job.

JFC, I'm talking about delivery via local mass transit. Of course we have long distance passenger trains.

Your response literally highlights my previous statement. This issue w/ the USA is undercrowding as far as mass transit goes.

So true. Governments have lost sight that they exist to serve the people. They are a collectivist solution to managing large projects the population needs. You can take many approaches to that, but that is the fundamental reason we have them.

Otherwise, we don't need them and wouldn't choose to have them.

That's the third one.

I think they've been through several rounds of repaving since 1967.

Nobody has paid anything different yet. The tax year hasn't even finished. He just decided to spend his funds on something visible to everyday New Yorkers.

I think that might be slightly out of Mamdani's jurisdiction..

Sure, but there a shit ton of people who say that because he’s a socialist, everything will go to hell. It’s important to counter that argument with facts that show otherwise.

Yeah it’s really sad.

i imagine max she dîd is 3 holes in a day though, not such a good example

How shit are the streets in the US? Everyone in the comments are bitching about their holes.

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It depends. Northern roads go through a lot of freezing and thawing, water leaks into the cracks, freezes, expands, breaks up the roadway, cars/trucks roll over them and breaks it up more, and the next thing you know there's a rim denting hole in the road. You can patch them all day long, and others will open up right next to them.

Down south, where it's warmer, the roads last much better. I'm in Florida, and the roads are generally pretty great, and when people visit America, most of them go to Florida, so that's what they know.

Just to be clear, I am not defending or praising the Florida government which is probably the most corrupt state government in the nation. The roads are good because the weather is good, not because of the government. They suck.

It it’s not FUCK CARS grow up, it’s FUCK THE POLITICIANS UNDERFUNDING TRANSIT AND ECO VEHICLES ON BEHALF OF CORPORATIONS.

us blaming each other is exactly what they want. You blaming a family who NEEDS a car to survive and get around is what they get off on

I mean we have many countries that prove that aspect we don't need some dude in New York to prove or disprove that we also have many failed leaders that have failed at that very task as well in the socialist world.

No people are actually acting like hes the first guy to fill potholes. There are so many comments saying "omg why could not one else do this" "omg a government actually working for people". I am correcting the record to show governments do this

I mean, my question was how it managed to do its job better than previous administrations.

Analysis elsewhere in the thread appears to indicate that none of my hypotheses were actually the most likely scenario. Instead, (and I'm embarassed I didn't think of this) the most obvious hypothesis is that the DOT is filling potholes at a completely normal rate, and there are just a lot of potholes available to fill. They are comparing filling potholes on the pothole-filling-est day of the year after a harsh winter, versus an average week after average winters in previous administrations.

So, as always, the null hypothesis when a politician says something should be "it's spin"

The first part makes sense. But I think an especially harsh winter would be more the culprit than SUVs. Not that they don't cause more damage - but the number of SUVs in a city doesnt double in a single year and cause a noticeable increase in potholes. We would expect a gradual increase in pothole development that would only be noticeable with statistical analysis over several uyears.

You're totally right. I didn't know it was such a big jump. I assumed this was one of those cases where every administration gets to claim something is the "biggest ever" because the thing they're bragging about tends to grow steadily with population and/or inflation.

Agreed, and also agreed that Mamdani wouldn't even be called a socialist in most of the world. But in the American context, everything I said is true. I'm sorry that we're so distorted from reality that we have to have conversations like these.

So it was a PR stunt that fixed more potholes than the DOT usually does in a week

No. DOT usually does bursts where they fix a lot of potholes then the mayor articles such as the above. They always hone in on a weird framing of the stat. This is potholes fixed in a single day. Others do potholes fixed total or over a period of time, average pothole fix time etc.

further established credibility that socialists can perform at least as well as the best capitalist

Sure but this was never a concern. Its not that we(socialism haters) think they can use a government department to fix an issue. Its that we think they will interject the government into industries it has no business running and then will lead to inefficient run industry. I dont think Mamdami will do that or anything close to it.

I mean, totally possible. But it looks like he just got a lucky break with the weather this year, lol

Ok

lots of holes are yearning to be filled

the fact that one of the biggest cities in the world had at least 8000 holes to begin with is ridiculous. NYC is smaller than 800km². that's at least 10 potholes per km², if you assume the city is entirely made of roads and no buildings.

What a terrible evil person. I can't believe he's supporting our infrastructure and supporting jobs.

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