[earthboundkid]

> "Sure, my house is valuable now, but if I could also walk to a grocery store, a barbershop, a coffee shop, an electronics store, a beer pub, a few restaurants, and a few other kinds of stores, AND get on public transportation that would take me to local hubs and office spaces -- surely my house would drop value like crazy then!".

In many cities, the logic of opposing transit is pretty explicitly racist. In Atlanta, I would hear MARTA derided as being only for black people, and in Baltimore's suburbs in 2018 there was a stink from suburbanites who live on the light rail route complaining that the train was "bringing in crime".

[earthboundkid]

Oh also in DC, there was supposedly a crime wave where hoodlums would take the subway to get away. I thought this was incredibly dumb because just post a cop at the station if it happens more than once? You literally have ten minutes to half an hour for the cop to get there. And yet the media reported it as fact.