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Repeating history?

 

The Jan. 14 story, Transit plans for stadium stall, details the failure to implement transit enhancements to the Marlins stadium. History might be instructive. In the 1940s and 1950s Detroit enjoyed a winning baseball team which played in a park just one mile from downtown. Public transit had been suppressed during the auto industry’s growth and people went to games by car. Commerce in the stadium’s dilapidated neighborhood appeared to be mainly the parking of cars on lawns.

Your report foretells parking on lawns for the Marlins’ new neighborhood.

If the neighborhood declines, the civic investment in the Marlins stadium, coupled with the Marlins’ refusal to help support transit needs, will have caused the opposite of neighborhood resurgence.

Blanchard Hiatt,

Hallandale Beach

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