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  • Ah but I have strict religious upbringing, so I can help out with that!

    You see, God is the alpha and Omega, and thus lives outside of time. It’s why the earth only being built in 7 days is okay because 7 days to us could mean something different to God. (Why did they bother to say days in the Bible? Who knows!)

    Since they are outside of time, then Jesus being born may have happened in the future, but to God he always was.

    Then we get into the whole holy Trinity where they all are god but also not each other, and then you can justify anything.

    That’s what they crammed into my brain when I was a kid instead of science.



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    Hold on, you never said residents. If this was a neighborhood-wide push then I would be open to it. The neighborhood may have a good reason to say bus stop should be here or there, if there were many home owners asking for a change then that is something I would agree with. Maybe there’s a coffee shop a block away that more people congregate at and it would be better used there, maybe people don’t want to j-walk to catch their bus. Those are reasons that make it worth changing - for the good of the public and the neighborhood.

    However, if it was one house then as I’ve said and stand by, I view it as selfishness. I see it as one person dictating how many others can or can not go about their time on public property, and trying to dictate to the city where they can or cannot put public services on their own land. I don’t care if it was 70 feet or 700 feet, it’s one person with a minor, tiny, insignificant change. I said this elsewhere and I stand by it:

    They didn’t want to see them out their window? Deal with it. You want privacy? Close the curtains or pay to put up a fence. Someone is loud? They’re there for 20 minutes max until the next bus. Or what is most likely from the photo - they probably wanted a parking space there. I don’t see any reason to push to move it that wasn’t selfish.

    The best reason I heard is that maybe it was an issue with how loud the bus was, that one may have credence. However, pushing it closer to the neighbor doesn’t seem like a solution, and it seems like it should be a neighborhood discussion.


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    I’ll say the noise factor is the first reason that I’ve heard could be a legitimate issue for the person living there, I appreciate that reason. If that was the case, then I would back it, but also I live ~1 block from the bus stop and I can hear the air brakes from my house through walls, so I would think they are pushing it to their neighbor’s house instead of talking about the actual problem with the city.



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    because to me it’s pure NIMBY-ism. Maybe it’s because I’m a city guy, who is used to whatever going on around my home, but it’s just a weird thing from my perspective to get upset about. I personally just don’t see anything that’s worth going to city council and complain about. To me I see a bus stop which from the image below looks like it’s a very suburban street so we’re talking a few dozen people a day, max. Whatever the reasons were in my opinion were selfish. They didn’t want to see them out their window? Deal with it. You want privacy? Close the curtains. Someone is loud? They’re there for 20 minutes max until the next bus. Or what is most likely from the photo - they probably wanted a parking space there. I don’t see any reason to push to move it that wasn’t selfish.

    It’s the city’s property. It’s on the city’s sidewalk, it’s for the city bus, and street parking is public funds for private vehicles. It’s theirs to do with as they will. The homeowner has rights up to the edge of the property. The city has a duty to provide ingress and utilities to that property. To me it’s the definition of Karen-ing.

    People disagree with me. Fine, but I’m holding my ground. I call it selfish. Yeah it’s 70 feet, but it all in my mind is “The city must change their plan and their property for my convenience”










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    We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place, we’re only given one side of the story. Maybe this was closer to a crosswalk, or nextdoor was less safe. We don’t even know if the stop existed there before she moved in. We don’t know. All we know is old lady didn’t like view of people outside her window and decided that instead of dealing with it she had to change it herself.