Some links I've seen promulgated recently
Jan. 28th, 2012 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer
Cars Kill Cities
Both are filled with comments along the lines of "Public transportation in my area is terrible, therefore there is no possible way to make good public transportation, and if people wanted public transportation they'd take it instead of driving cars, so clearly they don't."
Aside from the fact that you can't buy what they don't sell (so you can't switch to good bus service if your area is invested in the idea that this is impossible and nobody wants it anyway), you have to love the narrow little assumption that because this person or that one hasn't seen something, it can't exist. You just want to pat them on their little heads! Twits.
Cars Kill Cities
Both are filled with comments along the lines of "Public transportation in my area is terrible, therefore there is no possible way to make good public transportation, and if people wanted public transportation they'd take it instead of driving cars, so clearly they don't."
Aside from the fact that you can't buy what they don't sell (so you can't switch to good bus service if your area is invested in the idea that this is impossible and nobody wants it anyway), you have to love the narrow little assumption that because this person or that one hasn't seen something, it can't exist. You just want to pat them on their little heads! Twits.
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Date: 2012-02-03 04:21 am (UTC)Basically, there's a city with a popular suburb. The suburb has a train that takes people into and out of the city at certain times. One of the times that the train doesn't stop in the suburb is 2:30, but a train does run through the suburb at that time, and the people would like it to stop. So, they petition the city council. They get something like 250 signatures (enough to show quite a bit of interest).
A few weeks later, they get a letter back from the city council, "we sent out an observation team on three different days and found that no one was at the stop at 2:30. Therefore, we've determined that there is not enough demand for a train stop at 2:30."
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Date: 2012-02-06 03:19 am (UTC)