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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lydia Leftcoast

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3. Not the people who write anti-transit letters to the Minneapolis paper and

Reply to nxylas (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 09:23 AM

Jun 2012

live in the ticky-tack "white flight" suburbs. They'll be even more trapped than the folks in the gated communities. (And reading between the lines, you get a sense that their REAL objection to transit is that people of color ride it and could use it to ride out to their communities.)

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Austerity-crazed Republicans aim to run mass transit into the ground [View all] marmar Jun 2012 OP

All those anti-transit Republicans deserve to end up as old people Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #1

Won't happen, though nxylas Jun 2012 #2

Not the people who write anti-transit letters to the Minneapolis paper and Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #3