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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Wow, I guess I should add trashy to the list of odious qualities you all exhibit.

Personally, I understand that I am not entitled to dictate what others do with their property, much less fecklessly try to stonewall a project that is two decades in the making and will benefit hundreds of thousands of people.[/quote]

NP. I wouldn't sacrifice myself for "hundreds of thousands" of strangers, either. My family's quality of life is what's most important to me. I'll support projects that help others as long as they don't make my life worse. [/quote]

Well boy howdy do I have great news for you. The purple line actually [i]increases[/i] your family's quality of life. You and your family will enjoy increased access to public transportation, reduced emissions from drivers switching transit modes, and the spillover effects of increased economic activity associated with the purple line.[/quote]

Not the PP you are engaging, but I am guessing you aren’t in the path of the purple line?  If your home and it’s value and your sense of security was being uprooted - you would sing a different song.   Public transportation is great - if it aligns with your interests to get downtown for your home.  Many folks don’t need that, sorry.  Reduced emissions?  Maybe.  But you are relying on a ton of folks switching to Metro.  And Covid changed all the usual variables away from metro us.

How about this?  We will run metro in your back yard?  Presuming you own one.  I think you don’t.  [/quote]

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