• edric
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    511 month ago

    What was that saying again, something along the lines of: A great city is not where the poor own and drive cars, but the rich take public transportation.

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      1 month ago

      A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

      - Gustavo Petro, current president of Colombia, former mayor of Bogota

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      11 month ago

      I feel like what this good intentioned quote misses is that the poor are priced out of the city core entirely and pushed into banlieus