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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lydia Leftcoast

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5. Like the standing room only one

Reply to nxylas (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 11:43 AM

Jan 2013

That I rode from Paddington to Great Malvern en route to Hereford because the young people were on their way to a music festival near Great Malvern?
If they were all American tourists, how did they pick up English accents so fast?
If all the people riding the trains in Scandinavia were American tourists, why were all except one couple from Chicago, speaking Scandinavian languages?

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Transit Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2013 [View all] marmar Jan 2013 OP

Transit is usually so popular rbixby Jan 2013 #1

Got it in one nxylas Jan 2013 #2

You've put it more succinctly than I can Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #3

Even British anti-transit shills talk about "empty trains" nxylas Jan 2013 #4

Like the standing room only one Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #5