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		akgerber on June 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Denver Is Becoming the Most Advanced Transit C... There's a huge racial aspect in anti-mass-transit politics in many American cities that's missing in SLC. Transit is fundamentally urban, and in a lot of the country 'urban' is code for black.

AnimalMuppet on June 30, 2014 [–]

Hmm. Transit in SLC isn't "fundamentally urban". Also, SLC doesn't have a very large black population.

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