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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lydia Leftcoast

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3. You've put it more succinctly than I can

Reply to nxylas (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:29 AM

Jan 2013

If you see the names Randall O'Toole, Mel Zucker, and John Charles posing as transit "experts," beware. They're shills for the auto and oil industries, and their job is to criticize any and all mass transit and intercity rail projects. I have caught them in lies, most notably saying that no one rides the trains in Europe except American tourists.

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Transit Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2013 [View all] marmar Jan 2013 OP

Transit is usually so popular rbixby Jan 2013 #1

Got it in one nxylas Jan 2013 #2

You've put it more succinctly than I can Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #3

Even British anti-transit shills talk about "empty trains" nxylas Jan 2013 #4

Like the standing room only one Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #5