{"id":447,"date":"2009-07-22T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/22\/tuesday-pet-peeve-militant-nimbyism\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T01:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T01:47:00","slug":"tuesday-pet-peeve-militant-nimbyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/07\/22\/tuesday-pet-peeve-militant-nimbyism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday pet peeve: militant NIMBYism"},"content":{"rendered":"

NIMBYism<\/span><\/a> is rampant in Vancouver, and it drives me nuts.<\/p>\n

Olympics? No, we don’t want that, it’ll be too chaotic. Rapid transit to the airport? Nope, we don’t want the inconvenience of the construction. Better cycling infrastructure<\/a>? No, it’ll jam up the traffic.<\/p>\n

But what really <\/em>pisses me off is the kind of NIMBY who actually wants<\/em> the above initiatives to fail<\/em>, at great detriment to the city, just so they can prove that they were right<\/em>. The kind of NIMBY who would cut off their nose to spite their face, rather than admit they were wrong.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, people are being interviewed on the TV news, and commenting on news websites, who seem genuinely disappointed that the recent bike lane trial <\/a>on the Burrard<\/span> Bridge hasn’t brought downtown traffic to a complete standstill.<\/p>\n

The most obvious example though is the continuing Olympic NIMBYism<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Now, there are valid arguments against hosting the Games. For example, once the global economy tanked and the city was left on the hook<\/a> for the Olympic Village construction costs, those of us who started out strongly pro-Games had to admit that the naysayers might have had a point when they kept going on about generations of debt, and eternal doom and gloom in general.<\/p>\n

But if you say that you hope the Games get cancelled because of a swine flu epidemic, or that no-one comes because they can’t afford to travel and the whole thing is a disaster, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Do you really want that to happen? So you can sit there smirking “told you so” for decades to come, as property taxes rise and the city’s other infrastructure suffers?<\/p>\n

Really????<\/em><\/p>\n

Some people are even saying that they want to actively disrupt the Games!!!
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The Olympics are coming, like it or not. You didn’t vote for it, you didn’t want it to happen, but it’s gonna. So accept it, get over it, move on. Let’s do whatever we can to make the Games a raging success!<\/p>\n

You never know, you might even enjoy<\/em> having a global party in your backyard, with some of the world’s best athletes as your guests.<\/p>\n

A plague of noisy hockey fans upon Vancouver’s militant NIMBYs!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NIMBYism is rampant in Vancouver, and it drives me nuts. Olympics? No, we don’t want that, it’ll be too chaotic. Rapid transit to the airport? Nope, we don’t want the inconvenience of the construction. Better cycling infrastructure? No, it’ll jam … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,72,43,20,37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-plagues","category-politics","category-rants","category-sport","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}