Transportation decisions have the power to shape how we form communities, families, religious congregations, and even how we start small businesses. Bad transportation decisions can destroy communities, and good transportation decisions can help create them.
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Schaengold argues that transit leads to the sort of social interactions that improve families and small businesses and begin to address moral issues like abortion.
I've been through Grand Central a few times and spent two years riding the Tokyo subways and didn't see much interaction. But I get his point. It's akin to the smarter greenhouse gas message environmentalists should adopt to reach conservatives: Energy conservation and national security, not sad polar bears.
A lot of environmentalists will never take the time to understand where conservatives (Evangelical or otherwise) are itching. But then, the progressives are the ones deciding who gets scratched right now.
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