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My daughter went to Tokyo as her first foreign trip as an adult last summer. She said whenever they wanted to go somewhere she'd look for the closest train station on her phone and get on. There was always a train close by going where she wanted.

Clean, safe, easy to get around.

Why can't we do that?

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The “clean and safe” part is because our mentally ill aren’t locked away to the extent they are in Japan. The "easy to get around" part is because infrastructure costs are much higher here than in other countries because of the extent of veto points and legal red tape to be overcome.

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You know why

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