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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lydia Leftcoast

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3. Let me guess: The line would run through both African-American and white neighborhoods

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 05:39 PM

May 2014

and the stupider subset of whites has been subjected to a whispering campaign saying that black people will come in and commit crimes in their neighborhood and recruit their children for gangs.

It's the reason for the 18-year time difference between the opening of the MAX line though north Portland and the opening of the MAX line through suburban (Republican/Libertarian central) Clackamas County.

Have Randall O'Toole, John Charles, and Mel Zucker shown up yet?

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Is Effective Transit Possible in a Transit-Hostile City? [View all] marmar May 2014 OP

And I read the opposition is Koch-funded. Surprise? No! CurtEastPoint May 2014 #1

And led by a used car salesman nxylas May 2014 #2

Let me guess: The line would run through both African-American and white neighborhoods Lydia Leftcoast May 2014 #3

All too often, that's the underlying fear -- xenophobia of one sort or another. Gormy Cuss May 2014 #4