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These kinds of reverse-engineered equity arguments are almost always specious, but particularly so when referring to access to waterfront trails on the Peninsula. To the extent that there remain any enclaves of poor and racialized people in Palo Alto, they're near the shoreline. https://t.co/nq67RNYrvB
A lot of peeps are dunking on highway engineers with this, but projections for bike and transit ridership are worse (also overstated). Richmond Bridge bike path is at 30% of projections, BART Warm Springs at 50% (pre-COVID), etc. All the incentives are to overstate. https://t.co/MCrGhSk3dp
