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Originally Posted by ozone
No Carl it's not joke and I don't get how you can think that requiring or preferring publicly-funded projects use local labor as much as possible is in anyway a subsidy. The communities paying for the damn thing should benefit as much as possible. Nor do I think that the reason public transit is "so shitty in the US" has anything remotely to do with where the train cars are made. It's more like the 70+ years of auto-centric development, a suburban/car culture, and lack of public funding.
Anyway, I also wish the new cars had more the original look. They made BART unique. But I guess I'm just happy that there will be new ones. It's been long overdue.
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Insulating domestic producers from foreign competition just leads to worse outcomes for consumers, i.e. metro agencies and the people they serve:
https://pedestrianobservations.wordp...ica-is-a-scam/