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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://urbanists.social/users/otiswhite/statuses/113435681934002248">Otis White (otiswhite@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:38:53 JST</a><a href="https://urbanists.social/@otiswhite" title="otiswhite@urbanists.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/241148-48-20240208071549.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Otis White" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Otis White</a></section><article><p>“Because I have a car, I’m not thinking about riding the bus”: In the failure of two <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/transit" rel="tag">#transit</a> referendums in suburban Atlanta, we see the Achilles heel of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/urbanism" rel="tag">#urbanism</a>. It’s not good at explaining the value of denser, mixed-use, transit-oriented, walkable communities to people with no experience with these things. Until the conversation expands from the convinced to the curious but skeptical, progress will be slow. <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/transit-expansion-appears-to-fail-in-cobb-gwinnett/K7SHTEZXGZFN7P3S6XCU65SCHM/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/transit-expansion-appears-to-fail-in-cobb-gwinnett/K7SHTEZXGZFN7P3S6XCU65SCHM/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3948385#notice-7712837">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-06T20:38:53+09:00" title="Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:38:53 JST">about 6 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://urbanists.social/@otiswhite/113435681934002248" rel="external" title="Sent from urbanists.social via ActivityPub">urbanists.social</a></span></span><a href="https://urbanists.social/@otiswhite/113435681934002248">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.ajc.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/transit-expansion-appears-to-fail-in-cobb-gwinnett/K7SHTEZXGZFN7P3S6XCU65SCHM/">Transit referendums appears to fail in Cobb and Gwinnett counties in metro Atlanta</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Supporters had hoped the changing makeup of the two suburban counties would bode well for the proposed 1% sales taxes that would fund 30 years’ worth of projects.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Otis White (otiswhite@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:38:53 JST Otis White
“Because I have a car, I’m not thinking about riding the bus”: In the failure of two #transit referendums in suburban Atlanta, we see the Achilles heel of #urbanism. It’s not good at explaining the value of denser, mixed-use, transit-oriented, walkable communities to people with no experience with these things. Until the conversation expands from the convinced to the curious but skeptical, progress will be slow. https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/transit-expansion-appears-to-fail-in-cobb-gwinnett/K7SHTEZXGZFN7P3S6XCU65SCHM/
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  Supporters had hoped the changing makeup of the two suburban counties would bode well for the proposed 1% sales taxes that would fund 30 years’ worth of projects.

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