XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
| ...
| OK, I'm not impartial on this issue. I grew up on Long
| Island and still think of NYC proper as "the city." I live
| in Manhattan now, and my experience is that if you can
| afford housing -- which is admittedly a huge problem --
| it's actually a very good life, with an incredible range of
| things to do either in walking distance or a short subway
| ride away. Not everyone wants to live this way, but nobody
| is saying they should. All we ask is that some Americans be
| allowed to have favorable views of a place that provides
| the advantages density and, yes, diversity can offer.
|
| But that, of course, is exactly what the U.S. right refuses
| to accept. New York is one of the safest places in America,
| yet much of the country insists on seeing it as a
| terrifying urban hellscape. Sean Duffy, the transportation
| secretary, insists that everyone is afraid to ride the
| subway:
|
| If you want people to take the train, to take transit,
| then make it safe, make it clean, make it beautiful, make
| it wonderful, don't make it a shithole.
|
| Indeed, the subway is such an intolerable shithole that
| more than 4 million people ride it every day, myself among
| them. To be honest, the subway isn't beautiful by any
| stretch of the imagination, and you can't take it without
| coming into close contact with people who don't look like
| you. But it's quite safe -- more on that in a minute -- and
| it works very well at getting people quickly across the
| heart of a densely populated city.
| ...
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