Oh, now we're catching on that transit lines should maybe go somewhere? It occurs to me every time I'm on the L that it could probably be said that we lost the Cold War, given how that "helping other people is COMMUNISM!" reflex got to be ingrained to the point where our infrastructure is literally a ghost of what it could have been if we'd spent the last 60 years, Idunno, working together to see that everyone had basic health care and trains that connected to each other so you could get places without having to go downtown first... {sighs and goes off to sulk about losing the Olympic bid}
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