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Not solve the problem and watch it go away. Provide a stop-gap measure and then use the bully pulpit to assert that the problem is the car drivers' own damn fault for blocking better public options.

But then again, I live in a world in which a city without a bus system - however rudimentary - is as unthinkable as a city without sidewalks for pedestrians, electricity or plumbing, so that might affect my thinking...

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Jul 24th, 2009 at 06:10:36 PM EST
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I live in a county with one regular daily bus route outside of the University town ... and that only has that regular bus route because the University and County bus systems merged.

When over 80% of workers in a town require a car to get to work, getting into the bully pulpit to blame the large majority for blocking better public options and then staying in the bully pulpit is problematic.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Jul 24th, 2009 at 06:19:44 PM EST
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