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Re:World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese m... by FreakyT on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:38PM (#18695688)
The property rights one always bothers me; it seems to me that if you're right where a necessary transport link needs to be, you should of course be fairly compensated, but ultimately you shouldn't have any say/choice in the matter.

Ridiculous obstacles like this are, IMO, a major part of why the US is seemingly completely paralyzed when it comes to constructing any major transit projects.

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Re:World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese m... by richardbrevig on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:24PM (#18695898)
The US government does have the power to seize private property for the public's benefit, it's called Eminent Domain [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

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Re:World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese m... by mikeash on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:13PM (#18696072)
One problem is that historically it somehow turned out that poorer, blacker people tended to be the ones in the way of big transportation projects. A lot of the backlash has roots in real abuses.
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