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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Gormy Cuss

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5. They are even weaker in New England.

Reply to happyslug (Reply #4)

Thu May 15, 2014, 09:59 PM

May 2014

In the rest of the country counties have far more authority. In New England, not so much. Nearly every government function is at the town/city level. The courts are both in county seats and in district locations, which is a way of saying population centers rather than just the county seat.

Thus the important functional walking distance is to the town/city center rather than the county seat.

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