Transit NIMBYISM

Reading this definitely takes me back to my Seattle days at the turn of the last decade, when one spoke and read from many people who seemed willfully blind to the fact that unless your city can afford a new subway system there’s no may of transporting lots of people that doesn’t have some kind of substantial aesthetic effects.    (And this definitely includes multi-lane freeways.)   I also note that Seattle had lots of overhead wires for buses, and yet its downtown is certainly nicer than most of D.C.’s…