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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighbors managed to stall the purple line for almost 5 years. We fought as hard as we could using every tool available to us. They might win in the end, but we got five extra years of peace and quiet on our street. So that’s something. [/quote]

A pyrrhic victory, if there ever was one.[/quote]

Pyrrhic or not, we haven’t had trains rumbling by our house for years longer than we otherwise would have. So there. [/quote]

And you've exposed yourselves as intransigent, shortsighted busybodies objecting in bad faith. Congrats, I guess.[/quote]

Yeah sure, b***h.  :roll:

When the state says they’re going to put a railroad 50 feet from your bedroom you’d do the same thing we did. Go self-fornicate. [/quote]

DP here.

You mean the railroad they wanted to put on top of what used to be a ... railroad? Hardly a surprise.[/quote]

Not to mention an electric tram is hardly a “railroad”[/quote]

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