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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lydia Leftcoast

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2. Or there could have been a whispering campaign like the one that defeated

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 10:08 PM

Jul 2012

the first proposal for a north-south light rail line in Portland: it said that the line would bring black gang members down to the southern suburbs to recruit white kids.

My reaction upon hearing that was that many of the kids in the white areas in question were already getting into delinquency quite nicely on their own, thank you very much.

But the whispering campaign still worked.

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Gridlocked Metro Atlanta poised to defeat tax to improve mass transit [View all] marmar Jul 2012 OP

The repubs have it figured out. Turbineguy Jul 2012 #1

Or there could have been a whispering campaign like the one that defeated Lydia Leftcoast Jul 2012 #2