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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

nxylas

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2. Got it in one

Reply to rbixby (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 12:49 AM

Jan 2013

The fossil fuels lobby invests a lot of money in opposing transit, aided and abetted by easily-manipulated teabaggers who they've managed to convince that mass transit is a socialist plot to take away their SUVs and make them sit next to "those people".

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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