Like creating useless bus lanes? Then creating useless programs to write tickets to those "parked illegally" in bus lanes? Then creating useless digital waste finding a "better way" to write these pointless tickets over a pointless lane?
> The key is still to launch fast
The key is to get rid of things that don't work and can't provide worthwhile value to the _majority_ of tax payers.
By how much? 1%, 5%... or? It's measured so what's the measurement?
> and parking in them is in fact illegal
And all you have to prove this is a snapshot. Which are not accurate and is the basis for the entire thread here. And people who didn't commit any crime have been charged. So there is clearly an open question as to how many of these pictures appear to be illegal versus how many actually are.
> so why the air quotes?
Those are actual quotes and you've projected your assumptions into my actions. Did it harm your ability to understand what I wrote? If not then why make an issue of it?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes
While they may be “quotes” of stuff from the original (which that technically was) the intent was clear.
Furthermore, there's always someone who benefits and will lie with statistics to keep the gravy going.