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If they're like any other city I've been in, they're already trying to block them because it ostensibly leads to lowered property values since the cheaper transportation lets more people come in to the area.



That's a complete myth. Housing values are actually helped by having nearby public transit:

http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/green-living/public-tr...

http://www.realtor.org/news-releases/2013/03/home-values-per...


Yes, but logic and statistics tend to do very little to dissuade the anti-transit NIMBY types. They're fueled by things like this:

http://www.glennbeck.com/agenda21/


That reminds me of Stuttgart 21, a project that blocked by Nimbys took too much money to complete, and I think was abandoned. But honestly, it's not as bad as what the Frankfurt Int. Airport has to deal with. Want a new runway to accomodate increases in flight volume? Sorry, can't build that here. You might be Germanys major Airport, but backyards are more important than you.




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