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The most practical and necessary proposals are always dismissed as ‘very idealistic’. – Alain de Botton

The ideal of freedom has been conflated with the ideal of personal transportation systems like cars and freeways, and increasingly now, bicycles.  But the relative inefficiencies and high cost of personal systems lead to anything but freedom.

Am I the only one who has noticed how much more talk there is about bikes and bike infrastructure than about public transportation?  Or how the conversation about high speed rail has virtually eclipsed that of downtown transportation systems?

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