>>2491670I'm the anon you were replying to.
It is unfortunately true that more effective, ubiquitous, and accessible public transit, cities that are highly walkable and bikeable, and in general any endeavor that increases the mobility of the poor will also allow "undesirables" to reach places that most people would rather they didn't. The fact is that no one wants knots of drug addicts, thieves, panhandlers, etc. hanging around their neighborhoods or commercial districts. When this happens to a neighborhood or commercial district, it declines rapidly.
The reality is that if you are a society that has to do this in the first place--that is, deliberately confine the poor to ghettos, make it difficult for the lower classes to move around, gate your neighborhoods, oppose public transit, put third rails on benches, and so forth--it's not that the potential buses, trains, and bike lanes so many Americans fight against are inherently sinister infrastructural choices that will bring trouble; they're just infrastructure. They'll bring trouble because our fucked-up society has MADE a lot of trouble for itself.
And, after all, our nation wasn't exactly built up on brotherly love and justice. We took it by technological force of arms, deception, and ruthlessness, which is just human nature, despite what woke idiots believe. A bully has no real cause to whine about his own hardships. Or in other words, the fact that we can't build a light rail system to a shopping center without street blacks showing up and chasing away all the mild-mannered white and Asian office workers... these are our just desserts.
