Debunking The Claims Of Transit Critics

Sam Zimmerman argues transit opponents have been using "irrelevant or half-true claims."

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August 15, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"In countless forums, articles and the popular press, critics of transit have repeatedly used a few half-truths and irrelevant arguments to justify a completely erroneous position.Unfortunately, in many local debates, transit and transportation planners have become mired in this specious reasoning and off-repeated litany of unreliable statistics."Sam Zimmerman "put(s) the critics and the facts in perspective."

Thanks to Nathan Banks

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