• edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What was that saying again, something along the lines of: A great city is not where the poor own and drive cars, but the rich take public transportation.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I feel like what this good intentioned quote misses is that the poor are priced out of the city core entirely and pushed into banlieus

    • regul@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

      - Gustavo Petro, current president of Colombia, former mayor of Bogota