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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Pab Sungenis

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1. Or, better yet, more MASS transit!

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed May 15, 2013, 09:32 AM

May 2013

The main reason people are driving less is that the price of gas is about triple what it was a decade ago. People don't want to buy gas.

Affordable mass transit - light rail, hybrid buses, HSR - are the winning options for people who don't want to buy gas.

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Or, better yet, more MASS transit! Pab Sungenis May 2013 #1

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