Nimona RESISTSI want working mass transit.
Laura@valen1 I love how the first reaction is an instant "but what about rural folk?" as if they were being harmed by increasing access to public transportation in cities where the vast majority of people live...
Sphinx of Black QuartzThat's how it's inevitably framed, though (at least in the US). Tell the folks in exurbs and deep rural areas that "This might help somebody else more than you, maybe even somebody UNDESERVING" and they'll vote against it, no matter how much it would benefit them.
Also, gotta love the chutzpah of people who move to hour-from-everywhere suburbs, then complain about inconvenient commutes and lack of access to city infrastructure.
Twenty years later, when city infrastructure has worked its way out to the suburb, the same people move even further out to two-hours-from-everywhere exurbs, because "The local character is changing!" (Translation: "Too many non-white people.")