This sentence sickens me: "...an emerging new trend of bus and rail riders priced out of their communities by the very policies designed to boost transit ridership" Using "bus and rail riders" when you mean "poor people," fuck off troll.
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If the only people who use transit are the desperately poor it means that the transit is SO BAD that nobody with a choice uses it. Making transit better, RAISING RIDERSHIP, means getting the rich on board too. And if some of those rich want to live close to transit...
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...but if there are few transit lines, and not much housing near stations, guess what that'll do to the rent? Build more transit! Build more housing! The BS fake concern for the poor is just you trying to ensure that ONLY the desperate resort to transit. Get out of my sight.
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Most U.S. cities don’t build enough mass transit thus the ONE line that is being built gets hit with the development wave that becomes a displacement machine.
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