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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
Posts: 34,187
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Thank the short-sighted doofuses who planned our brilliant fossil-fuel dependent infrastructure by killing any sort of viable mass-transit initiative in this town for the last 50 years.
We had the red cars (trolleys) - politicians (backed by GM) killed it.
We had a proposal for a monorail system in the mid-1960s - politicians (backed by a consortium of oil companies and automakers) killed it (actually a lot of the councilmembers switched their votes LITERALLY overnight - google it).
We had a great plan for a light rail system - the politicians and NIMBYs relegated it to the ghetto.
We had plans to extend light rail to LAX - the politicians killed it (because they didn't want to offend the cab drivers)
We've had literally decades to plan and build a mass transit system that people would actually use - now it's little more than a curiosity used to shuttle around ghetto trash and gangbangas from one crime scene to the next.
This entire region is so ripe with corruption and stupidity it actually makes Chicago look like a model of visionary genius and clean/fair government appropriations by comparison.
We made our bed. Now we get to lie in it. Our transportation infrastructure is virtually 100% dependent on foreign oil. Get used to bending over and taking the big OPEC pole up the ass.
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