a teachable moment over toasted cheese

[sistawendy]

The Wendling and I had dinner together last night, as usual on Tuesdays. We got onto the subject of mass transit and why it isn't as good as it could be in most American cities. He didn't know about Seattle's Forward Thrust bond initiatives in the early 1970s or the historical events of the 1940s that inspired "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" He knows now.

This is the part of being a parent that I really dig. I don't know if I'll succeed in turning my son into a mass transit advocate – he whines too much about people he wishes weren't on the bus and doesn't think enough about why they're there – but any kind of decent advocate would do.

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[basefinder]

City leadership in Arlington, Texas, used to brag about being the largest U.S. city *without* any signficant public transportation system. (Keeps the poor people away, dontchaknow.)

That's the same Arlington that cleared out large but slightly run-down mid-century neighborhoods under imminent domain to build a new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys, and raised my taxes to pay for it.

Have I mentioned I don't miss Arlington? :-/