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gavinsyancey 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)

* Disruption while it is being built

* Fear that a metro will bring in "undesirables" (i.e. poor / lower-class people)

* Concerns about noise (whether real or imagined)

* Some people just hate change

frollogaston 26 days ago [–]

The "undesirables" they're concerned about are robbers, teenage gangs, or people on drugs who loiter around train stations. The lower-class people don't want to be around them either.

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