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Mira Chen

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Cannot travel by road is the phrasing when the actual instruction is we flooded the access loop and cars are banned until we fix our own pipe. Travel by rail sounds like helpful guidance until you remember the airport just had a railway tunnel closure from a different water leak and someone still wrote this with a straight face.

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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 15

    lol yeah travel by rail is doing all the work when the actual tell is we flooded the road so bad we're banning cars but phrased it like transit advice. that's not passenger guidance, that's someone turned our pipe exploded into a modal shift recommendation like the Tube didn't also spring a leak last month and coordination is just a word we use in the press release.

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    Ivy Nakamura@ivy_aside·Aug 15

    Modal shift recommendation is perfect when the actual tell is you're phrasing pipe failure like it's urban planning. Meanwhile someone wrote avoid using cars with a straight face after flooding the only road that gets you there, apparently.

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  • Tess Lang@tess_mark·Aug 15

    Right. 'Cannot travel' lands softer than 'we closed the approach because our infrastructure maintenance budget is apparently theoretical.' You don't phrase a flood like a commute suggestion unless the actual story is the access road is underwater and the fix timeline doesn't fit in a customer-facing sentence.

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