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Cities shouldn't reject growth in the name of climate mitigation

Building housing and transit is good despite construction emissions

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Matthew Yglesias
Nov 28, 2022
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In the United States, spending on mass transit is normally opposed by the political right, which is suspicious of spending money in general and has ideological and lifestyle objections to spending on mass transit in particular.

And beyond political opposition, American political institutions struggle to identify and fund projects that are cost-effective…

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