Can Political Opposition to Transit/Rail/Bikes be Explained by the Rural/Urban Divide?

Image: The Transport Politic All Politics is Local Without getting into partisan politics (that way lies madness), it’s fairly easy to conclude that in the U.S., one of the two main parties has been more opposed to things like transit, bike infrastructure, rail, etc (I’ll let you guess which one I’m talking about). So far a lot of ink has been spilled on how this is an ideological difference, but there’s another interesting way to look at it which I think could further explain the rift. The graph above shows which party is in power on one axis and population density on the other. L… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Political Opposition to Transit/Rail/Bikes be Explained by the Rural/Urban Divide?

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