• edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    What was that saying again, something along the lines of: A great city is not where the poor own and drive cars, but the rich take public transportation.

    • regul@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

      - Gustavo Petro, current president of Colombia, former mayor of Bogota

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I feel like what this good intentioned quote misses is that the poor are priced out of the city core entirely and pushed into banlieus