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The ‘Transit-Oriented Teens’ Are Coming to Save Your City

The 62,000 members of this urbanist Facebook group are doing more than just making weird memes. (But they are making a lot of weird memes.)
You may not like it, but this is what peak transportation meme performance looks like.Courtesy of Isaac Nemzer

It might have begun, as many things do, with Robert Moses—or a meme about him, anyway.

“Nice neighborhood you’ve got there,” read the bold-faced all-caps text on a portrait of the infamous city planner. “Sure would be a shame if someone put a highway through it.”