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Cars are racist.
‘ALL CARS ARE BAD’: Pete Buttigieg’s Equity Advisers Want You To Stop Driving
Transportation secretary’s equity committee aims to bring ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ to America’s infrastructure
By: Washington Free Beacon, September 1, 2023
Story continues below advertisementTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is appointing a group of “leading experts” to advise him on “transportation equity,” including several who argue that cars cause climate change and promote racism and therefore should be phased out.Buttigieg earlier this month appointed 24 new members to his Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity, an Obama-era body that Buttigieg is reviving after the Trump administration scrapped it. Included on the committee is Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, a “spatial policy scholar” who says “ALL CARS ARE BAD” given that they cause “a myriad of environmental issues and conditions.” Another Buttigieg appointee, self-described “transportation nerd” Veronica Davis, argued in an August essay that cars perpetuate “systemic racism” and are therefore “the problem” in America’s transportation system.
Buttigieg’s appointments—and his decision to revive the equity advisory committee—reflect the Biden administration’s whole-of-government emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion. President Joe Biden shortly after taking office in 2021 issued an executive order that called on federal agencies to “pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all.” Under the order, agency heads must conduct an “equity assessment” to identify policies that create “systemic barriers” in minority communities.
The committee will advise Buttigieg on “promising practices to institutionalize equity into agency programs, policies, regulations, and activities” and plans to meet for the first time this fall, according to Buttigieg’s August announcement. Marpillero-Colomina told the Washington Free Beacon that she is not “advocating for a complete erasure” of cars but intends to push Buttigieg to move America away from its reliance on private motor vehicles.
“My interest in being on the [equity committee] is to raise the question and push the Department of Transportation to really think about: What are some equitable, environmentally sustainable, economically beneficial, and feasible alternatives to policy that is car-centric?” she said in an interview. “How can we reimagine streets to prioritize people instead of cars? How can we create streets that are inclusive of modes other than cars?”
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13 Comments
8 months ago
I wasn’t sure what a “spatial policy scholar” was, so I did a search and all that was returned was this woman’s name, so I surmise she must be “self appointed”. That gives her zero creditability along with Mayor Pete.
8 months ago
Reply to
world@70
Pete B is an asshole and a political POS. He serves no useful purpose to the country and should not be in the position he has.
8 months ago
Reply to
davaedutchess
If they are so bad stop using cars and planes, Buttgig. Set an example and get yourself a horse and buggy.
8 months ago
Reply to
The Saint
If you think “cars” damage the “environment” …… just wait till everyone has a horse.
I’d love to see Butt-Giggles haul a couple sheets of plywood and a dozen2 2-bys on his bicycle.
Last edited 8 months ago by Grendel
8 months ago
Reply to
davaedutchess
The only purpose that he serves is to push homosexual perversion, the climate change, LIE and destroy the Transportation system.
8 months ago
It is not the cars that are destroying the country. It is the Brain Dead corrupt politicians, the elites and the UN who are destroying the country and the world.
8 months ago
Seems pretty queer that this idiot is claiming to know the answer to something he knows nothing about.
In the interest of “diversity” I could use 45colt, 45acp, and 308?
In the interest of “inclusion” I better add 22 and 12ga?
8 months ago
Never trust a guy who doesn’t understand what his sphincter is supposed to be used for.
8 months ago
The only thing that needs to be phased out is Pete the Buttf* cker
8 months ago
This little FAGGOT needs to go.
8 months ago
Buttigieg is the person Kevin Costner would make a great president and stumped for him in 2020. That says a LOT about his politics!
Buttigieg flies around on our dime and the FAA refuses to turn over his f ight logs & passenger records.
8 months ago
Buttigieg to move America away from its reliance on private motor vehicles.
“modes other than cars?”
YEAH! – MASS TRANSIT!!!
Where everyone gets beat down and robbed by violent well armed criminals!
WHOA!!!! NO WEAPONS TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST CRIMINALS!!!! YOU GO TO JAIL!!!!
Only criminals are armed and protected by the EQUITABLE JUSTICE SYSTEM!!!!
SELF DEFENSE FORCE HAS BEEN OUTLAWED!!! (Criminals are protected by law)
USE MASS TRANSIT! BE A VICTIM! BE HAPPY TO SURVIVE! (Or be dead)
ACCEPT BEING A VICTIM! IT’S THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST WAY!
USE MASS TRANSIT! CARS ARE BAD!
F*** Y** PETE!!!
