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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

KamaAina

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5. It never ends

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 11:20 AM

Mar 2013

Look at a map of DC Metro or MARTA in Atlanta. Look at where they go -- and more importantly, where they don't go: lily-white Georgetown and Cobb County (Newt country), respectively.

edit: In fact, teabaggers in Georgia just blocked a tax hike that would have benefited -- you guessed it -- transit.

re-edit: Closer to home, BART still does not go all the way down the big-bucks Peninsula (between SF and Silicon Valley). It took decades to get it as far as the airport.

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It never ends KamaAina Mar 2013 #5

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