Obama: first urban president
since 1881
Incredibly,
for the first time in 127 years, we have a president whose primary
residence sits where he can walk just minutes to shop for groceries,
(or books, or hardware, or almost anything you can think of), or dine
at dozens of restaurants, visit a museum, or take a dance lesson.
Transit adds urban value
The
"L" makes the difference between Chicago and Detroit
Recently in the Chicago
Tribune, writer Dennis
Byrne
decried the large state subsidies thrown at CTA, Metra, and Pace,
concluding that, "The next time you're furious about your late
bus or train, maybe things would be better if you paid more of your
fair share."
Unfortunately, his argument against
transit subsidy was
less common sense and more typical ignorance about how cities work.
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