Ok guys, I'm going to help us all stop pussyfooting around the issue. Maybe you people in Europe have a hard time understanding this, but I think a lot of the

Ok guys, I'm going to help us all stop pussyfooting around the issue. Maybe you people in Europe have a hard time understanding this, but I think a lot of the nervousness about mass transit has to do with the possibility of too many of what suburban neighborhoods consider "the wrong people" (e.g poor) showing up because they can now easily get there via cheap mass transit. The happy rich people live in the suburbs because they don't like the people in the inner cities and the only way they can limit their interaction is with distance. Why do you think the shiftiest neighborhoods are always around the greyhound station? For example of this extreme anti-poor paranoia: Palo Alto recently threw a huge fit because they wanted to put in a 7-eleven saying that it would attract an undesirable element. (http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_21998087/controversial-7-eleven-proposal-heads-san-mateo-city http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_2199808...)