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If doing this one thing would instantly lift Richmond from the bottom 10 percent of American cities to the top 10 percent, then wouldn’t we do it?

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Be ready for a proposal which will, believe it or not, make metropolitan Richmond one of the nation's top cities in access to jobs, commerce and entertainment by public transportation. Right now, Richmond is at the bottom. The Brookings Institution reported…

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