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From: msb@sq.uucp (Mark Brader)
Date: Thu, 10-Mar-88 13:49:00 EST
Message-ID: <1988Mar10.134900.8284@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Rent control, zoning, and politics.
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> And commuting is not an option for many, since
> it is expensive to operate a car and to pay for downtown parking. So down-
> town apartments, small as they may be, may still be the best choice for the
> poor.

Of course, increased transit subsidies would help here.
They would also help people like me, who don't need the help.
But *that* would reduce road traffic, which helps everybody.
(Think about how many cars it takes to hold a busload of people.)

Mark Brader	"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out
utzoo!sq!msb	 of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
msb@sq.com		 -- The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825