I know the new admin isn’t gonna do great things, but the money is already spent and a lot of people have already started (or in some cases, finished) these projects.

The work that has been done over the past four years has set into motion great changes for decades to come, and empowered local areas to now build on the vision and infrastructure set out by the outgoing administration. :)

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    Just because things have been started and the money had already been allocated doesn’t mean if it somehow gets on Trump’s radar that the democrats initiated something that might actually be good for America that’s still going when he’s president that he won’t viciously ruin it.

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      This isnt happening, so we can forget it and this isn’t uplifting news. This is just other reminder of whar we lost out to Trump. Trump administration will kill This and take the money and put it somewhere awful. Like consinstration camps. If they focus on trains carrying people well lets just say nazi did that too.

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        or Elon will pave over the tracks and use them for his stupid tesla “transit” projects

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          Only because Trump and the GOP are in bed with the neo-liberals behind closed doors. This is one enemy: Rich assholes, regardless of their supposed political views.

          That being said, there’s a big difference between “the bad president must die” and “kill all the rich people down to the last child”; nothing calls for a Holocaust, nothing. Please at least remember that when the concentration camps Trump is fucking preparing to make are ready, you CAN stop them from taking people by defending them, you CAN fight back, you CAN say “Fuck this, I will not let my country become Nazi Germany 2.0 when I have everything to lose.”

          And tbh, I have nothing to lose and STILL would view that as all the more reason to die to protect everyone else from the Party for Leopards Eating People’s Faces because I didn’t want Trump back in and never would have voted for him (I’m not American though so I couldn’t) and even I didn’t think Project 2025 was real until the Repugnicans took their masks off surprisingly early. Nobody SHOULD have had to consider that info viable, it sounded like a ridiculous conspiracy theory and I cannot blame someone for voting for the Leopard party when the leopard party is named “free statehood party” instead and everyone they talk to believes that’s true.

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    I’ve lived in European cities with great rail and bicycle infrastructure. But there’s nothing good coming in my part of Ohio. There’s no buses, or bike lines. Or sidewalks, not even a shoulder on the road. They’ve spent a couple of years adding two overpasses for the local highway though. Our tax dollars at work.

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            Too low density. Those buildings are mostly suburban one- or two-storey homes most likely, and much of what isn’t is not more than 4 floors and a lobby.

            Not saying it’s a bad idea. I’m saying too much car-centric planning can permanently “lock-in” car-centric living by making it too expensive. Those assholes in the auto industry knew exactly what they were trapping society in.