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Hayden Clarkin

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In 2003, Saturn released a commercial that ironically highlighted the inefficiency of cars and how much space they occupy.

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Taylor Swift is so powerful that she now has Fox News finally admitting climate change is bad.

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Touchdown: Taylor Swift lands in Baltimore ahead of AFC Championship, jet belches tons of C02 emissions

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This would literally destroy the North American airline industry. Build the loop.

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The ban on assault weapons up until 2004?

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“High school in 2002 looked so chill” Notice why?

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The electric vehicles we want, Joe.

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On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified. And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.

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This you?

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I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most Holy of Holy days - a self proclaimed devout Catholic - as Transgender Day of Visibility. The only thing you should be declaring on this day is ‘HE is Risen’.

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My politics is whatever this is

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Taylor can you ride Amtrak

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Travis Kelce jerseys saw a nearly 400% spike in sales after Taylor Swift attended his game, TMZ reports.

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This is better than 3 parked cars.

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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND PUBLICLY GAVE YOU 75 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A VIDEO GAME BUSINESS THAT FAILED TWO YEARS LATER! IT WAS SO FINANCIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE THE STATE POLICE HAD TO INVESTIGATE AND TAX PAYERS ARE STILL PAYING THE BONDS 10 YEARS LATER!!!

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My body my choice? Your loan my responsibility? This isn’t loan forgiveness, it’s a generation of lazy unaccountable uneducated children being covered by hard working debt paying Americans.

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Dubai suburbs are the final boss of suburbs.

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Next month I am traveling from NYC to Chicago, the 3rd busiest air route in the country, which takes 19.5 hours via Amtrak on a daily train. This is the same distance as Beijing to Shanghai, which takes only 4.3 hours and leaves every 20 minutes. This country can do better.

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This is the greatest ad for public transit of all time.

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Jerry’s apartment hallway can’t exist. My entire childhood was a lie.

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My parents having to DRIVE to go for a walk in their town is one of the greatest ironies of suburban living.

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This is the Bronx River the same year the EPA was founded, a place the city referred to as an "open sewer." This week, three dolphins were found eating fish in the river for the first time in decades. Yeah, environmental protection is actually a great thing.(Camilo Vergara, 1970)

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For the rest of my natural life, I will never find a more unhinged ad 💀

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Y’all I’m making billionaires sell their private jets 😂

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1 year

*bites lip*

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2 years

No, the waterfront of America's 3rd biggest city shouldn't look like this.

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“America is too big for rail” and yet we literally had it. Almost everything we advocate for is a restoration.

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I’m just in awe of Singapore’s airport.

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McDonald’s in Louisiana have these and the minimum wage is $7.25, Ingrid.

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This is the McDonald’s at the Minneapolis airport. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.

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Car dependency in this country is insane:

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JFK was a lot of things, but “faithful to his wife” was not one of them lol.

Joseph Stalin Fan 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇵🇸

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DeSantis is our generations JFK He’s - A family man - Faithful to his wife - Young gun who brings energy to the party I see no reason why we shouldn’t nominate DeSantis

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So the Democrats won statewide with 51% of the vote and earned 30% of the state house. Can someone explain to me how Wisconsin is a democracy?

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I literally just want to be able to walk to the grocery store and the coffee shop. It’s really not that serious lmao

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After leaving NYC two hours ago, my Amtrak train pulled into New Haven, 81 miles away. I’m begging for our trains in America to go faster than 40.5 mph on our busiest rail corridor in the worlds biggest economy.

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People will talk about how 15-minute cities are prisons and then live here:

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2 years

Denmark's public transit agency has made the greatest transit advertisement of all time. No notes. (Din Offentlige Transport)

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They’re searching for survivors in the water and people are talking about how same day Amazon delivery might be threatened.

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IMPLICATIONS OF #KeyBridgeCollapse : "This is going to be catastrophic for many reasons," one resident said. "Number one, the harbor's blocked. Number two, we're not going to get any more new car deliveries at this time. Amazon is just on the other side of the river and you can…

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Build a transportation system where people aren’t walking on the side of a highway to get to a concert because cars are so inefficient at moving people.

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In 2019, there were 18,142 flights and 2,836,474 passengers that flew between Atlanta and Orlando (400 miles). If a French TGV train connected both cities, it would take about 3 hours. If the train ran hourly, it would have the capacity to move 8.5 million ppl a year (300% more).

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Camp Nou in Barcelona can fit nearly 18,000 more people than MetLife and has almost no parking because there are 3 subway lines, 3 tram lines, and buses, while its location provides both the option to walk and/or bike there.

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I regret to inform you that there is no transit system that can quickly move 100,000 people in and out of a few-acre area without any congestion

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Hayden Clarkin

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More neighborhood bioswales, please? (Seattle)

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If you’re wondering why we are in a once in a lifetime housing crisis, it’s because older homeowners who bought their homes for a few blueberries do this at nearly every public meeting on new housing in the country.

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This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. (Detroit, MI)

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Southwest is rolling out new paper-thin seats, and Americans just have to deal with it because the domestic airline has lobbied against high-speed rail so successfully that we have no other options.

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I want to pass a law that Amtrak cannot be more expensive than airfare serving the same trip.

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Only 19% of Nashville's streets have sidewalks

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The Tennessee Titans have released a new look at their future $2.1 billion stadium — set to open in 2027. (via @Titans )

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Can’t sleep knowing that Egypt is building a highway on a beach. Egypt is one of the worst highway expansion offenders right now.

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To tweet this the same week a conservative beheaded his federal worker father because he wanted to “stop the Biden regime” is insane tbh.

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And?

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When people are given a protected bike path that takes them where they want to go, people will use it!

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"15 minute cities are prisons!"

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Yes

Julia 🇺🇸

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Does this look like the crowd of someone who lost an election? 🙌🏻🇺🇸

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When it opened, this gorgeous station saw up to 150 trains per day. Today, it sees 6 trains per week. Six.

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Love the Union Terminal when the fountain is on :)

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This 433 unit apartment building in downtown Houston served by light rail is now vacant and slated to be demolished for a highway widening project. In the year 2022.

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Dublin is a perfect example of how highways were supposed to be: a circular ring around a city with connections in each direction. They were never suppose to displace communities and destroy the cities they were meant to serve.

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Sorry, did you just go up to a group of black people minding their business at an airport and ask them for their papers and then recorded it without their consent?

Nuance Bro

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Just ran into a group of African migrants from Guinea heading to New York City. They had documents from “Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc” Im seeing migrants ALL over the place here at the airport this is insane. Thank you to @CurrentRevolt for filming and…

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This man who placed his telescope in the middle of a Brooklyn road to show strangers what Saturn looks like has done more for traffic calming than any elected official in the lower 48. Let’s protect this man at all costs.

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WE COULD HAVE HAD TRAINS BUT NO WE LISTENED TO THE AIRLINE LOBBY AND NOW WE HAVE BROKEN PLANES AND NO TRAINS

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Hayden Clarkin

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Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 how biological men have advantages at playing pool?

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Absolutely incredible. At the European Pool Championships, female player, Kim O'Brien, forfeited the women's final where she was set to play male player, Harriet Haynes. I am happily paying her the prize money she lost out on. Stop playing their game. More of this!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Imagine trying to gaslight me into believing connecting NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago within 5-6 hours by high speed rail isn't good for the economy?

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“That money going to Ukraine could help Americans instead!” The same people:

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Texas opts out of 2024 free summer school lunch program

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By that logic, that means that America is under occupation by almost every nation on the planet.

End Wokeness

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This is what occupation looks like

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This is basically like off the shelf technology that our policymakers refuse to implement in the biggest economy on the planet.

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Americans will withstand double decker airplane seating before they demand high speed rail.

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Another public meeting where people who bought their home for 7 grapes are against new housing. Nothing unifies homeowners more than shutting the door behind them.

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750 National Guards and a police station inside this subway station didn’t stop the gun violence. So are we done with the political theater and actually ready to make substantial change?

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Unfortunately, I was there when it happened. @ABC7NY

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The Sphere being approved and built faster than a bus lane is so USA coded lol

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The Las Vegas Sphere was announced in 2018. Construction began that same year. It’s now hosting stunning visuals and amazing concerts. Public consultation seeking planning permission for an identical sphere in Stratford, East London also began in 2018. It is yet to be approved.

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It is unconscionable that a city of 900,000 people has a downtown that's essentially a parking lot. (Columbus, OH)

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Americans driving through one of the oldest car-free plazas in Munich and wondering why there’s a flowerpot in the middle of the road just goes to show that our people will never resist driving on every inch of land. 🦅🇺🇸

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Are drivers in this country alright?

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People are unhappy with the barricade first responders have set up to prevent them from driving toward a collapsed bridge.

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This gorgeous station sees ONE train every 56 hours.

light rail tourist

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This beauty deserves more than 3x weekly rail service

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The cognitive dissonance an entire generation has worldwide about the housing crisis needs to be studied for a century:

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We aren’t stopping climate change, are we?

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My political platform is that every major urban corridor should look like this:

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Shut the fuck up about European trains already

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It's genuinely wild that Downtown Houston in the 70s was a literal parking lot.

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The buses of New York City

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In 2001, Seoul's new mayor, Lee Myung-bak promised to restore the Cheonggye Creek after it was sealed over for an elevated freeway in 1968. Since its removal, 500,000 people each week visit the 9km of river and greenery in the heart of the city.

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@MattWallace888 Being a full time conspiracy theorist must be exhausting.

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*sees a hit and run* “Who’s at fault?”

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I genuinely believe this person should serve life in prison for this.

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The "15-minute city" by urbanist Carlos Moreno is the belief that every neighborhood should have access to work, housing, food, health, education, and leisure within a 15-minute walk. It's a really simple but transformative goal.

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By 2035, Amtrak plans to restore passenger rail service between Nashville and Atlanta with a trip time of 6 hours and 34 minutes. When the train service begins in 2035, it will be 25 minutes slower than it was 95 years ago. The richest country in the world has to do better.

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“DEI Mayor” = anyone that’s not a straight white male

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This is Baltimore’s DEI mayor commenting on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. It’s going to get so, so much worse. Prepare accordingly.

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My politics is whatever this is:

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Please read the caption, please.

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If only I created a fake business that could've gotten forgivable PPP loans to pay off my student loans.

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Canada’s two largest metros, Toronto and Montreal, see six trains per day in each direction that take a little more than five hours. Madrid and Barcelona are the same distance and see 35 trains per day each way, taking as little as 2 hours and 30 minutes. Canada deserves better.

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Man is going to stop building and maintaining vital infrastructure to “own the libs”

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Here is the man who was just elected President of Argentina, detailing his plans for the government.

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One of the most photographed streets in the country and it’s illegal to build in almost everywhere today.

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What is the best state in the USA to live in right now?

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“The NYC subway is so dangerous!”

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I want to stress that Kyiv’s off peak frequency while being invaded is better than nearly all of America’s transit systems during peak. I’m genuinely at a loss of words.

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How does an entire party sit unified and not clap for public teacher raises?

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The reason I am so passionate about good urbanism is so that cities like Denver never repeat the past. (1920s to 1970s).

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@Caitlyn_Jenner This you?

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#TransDayOfVisibility There's no better visibility than with sisters by my side.

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This country desperately needs high speed rail.

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NEW: Southwest Airlines will launch a new route from Baltimore (BWI) to Richmond (RIC). At 121 miles, this represents one of the airline’s shortest routes, possibly in the top 5. BWI-RIC will commence on June 4 with 2x daily flights. Details:

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It’s actually insane that fully self driving cars will be everywhere without our consent but a bus or bike lane goes needs years of community and environmental outreach. It’s honestly cruel.

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Hayden Clarkin

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To this day, this Uber commercial has always been the perfect display of how inefficient cars are in cities.

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Airlines successfully lobbied against high speed rail so that they could do this knowing you have no other choice.

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Delta announced that beginning Tuesday, the fee for first and second checked bags will increase.

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The average Cities: Skylines build now that parking lots will be added:

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Welcome to the first Cities: Skylines II development diary! Roads are the backbone of your cities and we have made road building much easier. Check out the dev diary here 👇👇👇 #CitiesSkylinesII #CitiesSkylines2 #CitiesSkylines

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The transformation of the Chicago Riverwalk

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50% of ALL the surface area of Downtown Tulsa is dedicated to streets or surface parking. At some point, you knock down and build so much parking there's no reason to park there anymore. 50%... wow.

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Hayden Clarkin

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Rich white people living in South Beach shouting opposition to providing transit access to the beach is snapshot into why this country has the transit infrastructure it has today.