This is a morally reprehensible comment. So is your other one.

ah… you check our shitters honey?

WOOHOO WE'RE NUMBER ONE❗️❗️❗️

And our esteemed politicians are doing what to correct this?

PS - More mass transit isn’t the answer.

And CT is nothing like LA. Imagine driving through an hour of traffic just to arrive at….Bridgeport!?

As someone who lives in CT, was born and raised in ATL, and does work in LA occasionally, I-95 is the easiest drive compared to the others. This article doesn’t ring true to me at all.

By definition, suburbs don't have the density to make mass transit affordable.

There's literally a train line that runs directly parallel to all of this, but getting to the train from the burbs ain't quick either.

The number of people per house/unit is going down so more people are living by themselves.

If only many sections of it were three lanes.

yes it's safe!!!

If the extra lane is HOV and busses, it’s a start.

Oh because incentivizing poor people who need 28k to make divisions about running our lives is such a good idea? You know because broke people are sooooo good at operating successful businesses.

Let’s follow that train of thought though. We could minimize our government to an extent but to completely abolish it would create utter chaos so regardless we need SOME level of government and politicians. By keeping politics as a volunteer or incredibly low paid position, because it’s a “privilege to serve”, we are making it so that the only people who do not have to work a 9-5 to pay their bills, i.e. the wealthy, are ABLE to get involved in politics. As it stands if I, a working class stuff, were to get involved in politics I would likely have to quit my job, try to live on the salary provided for the duration, and then cross my fingers my job is there waiting for me in a few years. Meanwhile a multimillionaire can just go for it because he doesn’t have those same worries. Lowering or removing salaries for politicians would actually increase corruption because IF a working class person got elected they would almost have to sell out to corporate interests just to make ends meet.

This is simply not true. At this point a very large chunk of Fairfield residents are NYC transplants that are used to decent public transit and complain about CT's lack of it every single day. They would absolutely use it regularly. Hell, if there were regular, reliable, frequent, affordable buses or subways from the train in Stamford out to bulls head and throughout the main city of Stamford, it would put a HUGE dent in 95 rush hour traffic AND Stamford internal traffic.

Tf does our collective choice to underpay teachers have to do with people making bad decisions.

Like the logical throughline here is “teachers who live in squalor deserve such, and they’re just as stupid as people who move next to race tracks and bitch about the noise.”

I was coming in to say this - no fucking way traffic is worse on 95. Even I-93 in Boston has worse traffic.

That’s exactly the point. You or I COULDNT live our lives in politics because we don’t have other sources of income. The current system makes it so that those who can afford to become a politician are those who are already wealthy, while those of us working schlubs would go bankrupt trying to do a stint in politics. By increasing pay for politicians to a livable level, we can make it so that the working class will be able to become involved in politics and would therefore give more of a voice to their fellow workers.

That thing is a horrible shitshow

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….right because those getting involved are retirees or independently wealthy which is the exact point OP made. You get that right?

I'm pretty sure the main point of the merit was just to give people jobs. It was a Roosevelt new deal project. Every mile or two had to be designed and built by a different company and every bridge too to maximize the number of people/companies working on it.

Not to say your wrong but getting people to work was the main goal, the actual highway was a bonus.

Correct. Anecdote is the singular form.

So your solution is to make it HARDER for regular people who aren’t corrupt/ overly self interested to become a part of politics? That’s like solving a gunshot wound by shooting yourself again to dislodge the first bullet.

Why do we need to build more units if the population is supposedly dropping?

Why do we need to build more units if people are leaving in droves? And if people are leaving, why have rents basically doubled in the last 3 years?