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Originally Posted by M1EK
Your second argument was that growth in the non-Austin portions of the service area had overwhelmed growth in Austin. I showed THIS not to be true.
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But it is true. Look at the freaking numbers.
Austin 2000 population: 656,562
Leander 2000 population: 7,596
Manor 2000 population: 1,204
Lago Vista 2000 population: 4,507
Percentage of the service area in Austin proper (roughly, ignoring some of the other small surburbs, which only helps you):
656,562/669869 = 98% (but that 2% is very important, as it turned rail passing into rail failing).
Austin 2010 population: 790,390
Leander 2010 population: 26,521
Manor 2010 population: 5,037
Lago Vista 2010 population: 6,041
percentage of the service area in Austin proper:
790390/827989 = 95.5%
Austin makes up _less_ of the population of the service area than it used to.
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Originally Posted by M1EK
The overall argument, that a light rail election in 2014 would be easier to win than the election was in 2000, is fucking obvious.
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No, it's not. There's no reason to think it would be easier, given the increasing demographic headwinds.
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Originally Posted by M1EK
And you repeatedly demanding citations on everything is an effort to confuse and delay, not enlighten.
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No, I'm doing it because you repeatedly claim things that factually aren't true (see above).
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