To understand the context, this was a white suburb in a largely segregated city twenty years ago. And in that context, the racial implications were very clear.

To understand the context, this was a white suburb in a largely segregated city twenty years ago. And in that context, the racial implications were very clear. If you read up on the history of public transportation in the US, you will be gobsmacked by the racism at play. To wit: in NYC, the highway to the beach was explicitly designed with overpasses too low to accommodate buses, to keep blacks from the beaches and the white suburbs that surrounded them: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-l...