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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

KamaAina

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1. Many, many repukes commute from their lily-white suburbs to their cushy downtown jobs on trains

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 02:54 PM

Jul 2016

The reason repuke politicians don't like transit in general is that it might enable "those people" to go the other way. Try taking DC Metro to Georgetown. Or MARTA to Cobb County.

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They’re not unicorns, they’re Republicans who like buses and trains [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 OP

Many, many repukes commute from their lily-white suburbs to their cushy downtown jobs on trains KamaAina Jul 2016 #1

That bit about no Metro stop in Georgetown: mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #2