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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

mahatmakanejeeves

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3. Like Scanton, Pennsylvania, and Sayre, Pennsylvania, and ...

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 05:06 PM

Sep 2013

places where there used to be passenger trains. Years ago, I rode overnight from DC to Sayre on Capitol Trailways, I guess. I had to transfer in the middle of the night.

For people who don't own a car, it's the bus or hitchhiking. Some of them have that newfangled WiFi too.

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