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Yonah Freemark · 18 May 2018

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  1. Our reading

    The decline in transit ridership is not a permanent shift because its causes do not appear to be primarily related to technological change.

    Their wordsYet there are reasons to believe it isn't a permanent shift, given that its causes don't appear to be primarily related to technological change.

  2. Our reading

    Making a genuine effort to improve the lives of existing transit users will eventually bring more people back onto transit systems.

    Their wordsMaking a genuine effort to improve their lives will, I am convinced, eventually bring more people back onto systems.

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