Enjoy some light irony on Saturday, namely the fact that the environmentalist-backed light rail project is forcing the closure of a health food coop.
Austin’s cooperatively-owned grocery store and market Wheatsville Food Co-op is going to be closing its original North Campus location eventually. The last day for the 3101 Guadalupe Street shop will be on December 31, 2026.
A press release noted that Wheatsville board of directors and management decided to not renew the West Campus store’s lease, which ends at the end of 2026. A major reason for this decision was the city’s light rail plan Project Connect, which would run through Guadalupe Street. “While this project is in the public interest, it will also curtail our ability to operate in this location,” says general manager Bill Bickford via a statement. The train would take up the major street’s middle lane, so then it would be “impossible for the large trucks our primary suppliers use to access the delivery area,” he writes. Therefore, “if we cannot receive product, we cannot operate a grocery store.
Rita Daily, Wheatsville’s marketing director, noted through email that the shutter was announced to the owners — its website boasts over 28,000 members — this morning. The company is going to se if they can reopen or operate what they describe was “small-format stores” instead.
There’s a south Austin location that will evidently remain open, though one wonders how long the south location can survive without a steady influx of dewey-eyed leftwing college saps the Guadalupe location’s proximity to UT provided.
The irony on top of the irony is that statutory difficulties make it more and more likely that Project Connect light rail system will never actually be built, so the coop will be closing only to line the pockets of high priced consultants.
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Tags: Austin, Democrats, environmentalism, light rail, Social Justice Warriors, University of Texas, Wheatsville Food Co-op
I am an environmentalist. The John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt kind. The modern envireligion is a total scam. It always was. If you dig deeply enough you’ll find some very interesting names associated with very powerful industries bankrolling the post-Clean Air Act of 1970 granola zealots. They were fresh off a major victory and emboldened to use the administrative state for everything NOT contained in the legislation. Those zealots became the regulatory patrons of an entirely new industry worth trillions. It’s always about money.
In many ways that aren’t figurative it’s an anti-human death cult determined to play god with nature entirely, just look at the way various protection measures will favor one organism over another, regardless of whether it’s endangered. Someday – if it hasn’t already happened – these cultists will cause the extinction of some endangered organism in favor of another and act as if they’re any better than those that came before them making the same choices with the knowledge then available.
There’s a lot of truth to the phrase “you are the carbon they want to reduce”, and there are far more radicals within the movement than people think, in fact they’re in charge of it.
Nothing kills a cause quite like another cause that is superficially similar, easier to understand, and thoroughly foolish.
What I observed in the Puget Sound region in reference to all these “light rail” projects is that the most vocal enthusiasts for the damn things never, ever used them after they were built. But, they thought that everyone else ought to be forced into using them…
Notably, most of those same assholes are the ones who thought that fare enforcement was racist, and that there should be zero law enforcement on those trains… Which creates a bit of a vicious circle, because most “normies” won’t get on the trains because “crime”.
The majority of light rail advocates are hypocritical creeps who will never, ever use that which they are shilling for. It’s a virtue-signaling thing, a luxury belief system.
Actual point of fact is that public transit like they imagine only works in high-trust societies with little crime. Which was the condition prevailing in Europe, until this same class of globalist asshole decided to bring in Third-World criminals as a replacement population. Cue the decreasing use of mass transit for any but the criminal element…
I yearn for the coming future when the pragmatists among us get tired of all this theoretical bullshit and decide to go through public life with fire and sword, reducing all these luxury belief systems to rubble. It’ll happen, but likely not in my lifetime. People are not going to put up with this shit forever…
“only to line the pockets of high priced consultants.” Says it all. About everything.
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