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Originally Posted by thegoatman
I don't understand why the southside alderman are so car centric minded and less about walkability. Most of the black southside alderman were the ones who voted against the TOD proposal (along with a list of other bungalow neighborhood alderman). Do they not know the most desirable and sought out neighborhoods in the city are those that are dense and walkable? Yet they oppose this?? Make it make sense
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Because their voting constituents are car crazy, just as much as the other bungalow neighborhoods and suburbs.
The nostalgia for post-war Englewood would have been the nice cars and department stores. Not the apartments or CTA.
A lot of my neighbors in South Chicago view taking the Metra as an eccentric activity for young people with money. The kindergartners next door regularly ask why I don’t take the car.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/histo...jqa-story.html