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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Gormy Cuss

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4. All too often, that's the underlying fear -- xenophobia of one sort or another.

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #3)

Thu May 8, 2014, 01:34 PM

May 2014

I lived in Boston when the Red line extension was being built. It terminated in Cambridge at the Arlington border because at the time it was proposed some NIMBYs in Arlington and Lexington didn't want a direct line from Dorchester to their town. The sad part is that by the time the extension was built most people in Arlington would have loved a station or two rather than continuing to ride the slower bus lines to the subway.

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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