[PRCo] Re: This "Car Talk" Makes me Wonder....

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> This perception has helped kill light rail proposals in several big cities. There are
> white people in Long Beach who blame the Blue Line for bringing violent elements of
> South Central L.A. into their community. And there are African-Americans from Watts
> and Compton who blame the Blue Line for the influx of Latinos in their traditionally
> black communities. Other activists claim L.A. light rail is being established to
> whisk the more affluent through poor neighborhoods, while the poor have to depend on
> inferior bus service over L.A.'s surface streets. And we thought Pittsburgh's transit
> politics can be nasty..... :-/

Wait until the East Busway extension has been open a while longer. Sadly I
missed the opening. I got on a train in San Antonio that morning, and was
nowhere near here by then.