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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

HassleCat

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3. They can still do it

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 5, 2015, 10:34 AM

Jun 2015

They just don't get the land for free, the way they used to. In the bad old days, if you didn't want to let them cross your land, the simply sent someone out to force you to sell cheap or die.

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