Choosing Transit Infrastructure Without Locking in Social Inequity for Decades

A new light-rail station opens. Property values near it jump 40% in three years. Rents rise. The working-class families who fought for that station can no longer afford to live there. This isn’t a hypothetical — it’s happened in dozens of U.S. citie, from Portland’s MAX Orange row to Atlanta’s Streetcar. Transit infrastructure is a 50-year commitment. Choose badly, and you don’t just waste money. You embed racial and economic inequity into concrete.

So how do you choose a route, a mode, and a timeline without accelerating displacement? The answer isn’t paralysis. It’s a structured, equity-primary method that treats community power as a layout input, not a public-relations stage. Here’s the method I’ve used with transit agencie and advocacy groups — and where I’ve seen it fail when skipped.

Who Needs This and What Goes off Without It

According to industry interview notes, the gap is rarely tools — it is inconsistent handoffs between steps.

The stakeholder map: planner, elected officials, community organizers

This chapter is for the person who sits in a conference room with a regional transit map and feels the weight of every dashed row. It’s for you, the transit planner who knows the model spits out a low-spend BRT corridor but also knows that corridor slices through a neighborhood already cut by a highway. It’s for the elected official who hears “equity” in every budget hearing and wonders what that more actual costs in votes and dollars. And it’s for the community organizer who has watched three transit plans skip their ward, each phase with the same promise: “We’ll get you next round.” The odd part is—most stakeholders share the same goal: better access for more people. But without a shared definition of who transit is for, the method defaults to the path of least resistance.

That path usually means builded where land is cheap and opposition is weak. flawed sequence. The result is a setup that serves commuters from distant suburbs while household within the urban core—many without cars—wait forty minutes for a bus that shows up late or not at all. I have seen this happen in a mid-sized city where the light-rail alignment was drawn to capture a new hospital campus and an entertainment district. The neighborhoods in between? Mostly minority- and low-income blocks. They got a stub station with no feeder buses and a parking garage they didn’t own. The trade-off seemed efficient on paper. On the ground, it widened the gap.

Historical harm: redlining and highway routing

We didn’t begin this mess from scratch. Redlining maps from the 1930s drew the lines that transit planner inherited decades later. The same neighborhoods marked “hazardous” then were bulldozed for urban highways in the 1950s and 60s—and are now the ones where transit agencie outline park-and-ride lots or elevated guideways that scatter sunlight and foot traffic. The catch is that these scars are still bleeding. When you route a new bus rapid transit series down a corridor that was once a racial dividing row, you’re not just buildion infrastructure. You’re reinforcing a boundary. And the spend isn’t abstract. Residents face longer commutes, worse air quality from idling diesel buses, and displacement when property values spike near the station but rents aren’t protected. That hurts.

“We spent thirty years fighting a highway expansion. The transit row that replaced it still bypasses our elementary school by half a mile.”

— Community organizer, Portland, 2019

Health disparities follow the same tracks. Without reliable transit, people miss medical appointments, food access narrows, and kids walking to school cross arterials with no crossing signals. The planner’s spreadsheet calls this “mode share.” The parent calls it a daily risk. Most crews skip this history lesson—they lack the institutional memory or the courage to name it. But ignoring the past doesn’t erase it. It just lets the same templates reassert themselves, dressed up in new jargon like “transit-oriented development” without the anti-displacement funding to produce it stick.

The expense of ignoring equity: displacement, health disparities, legal exposure

Let’s talk about the legal side, because that’s what finally gets some citie to shift. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act applies directly to transit agencie receiving federal funds. If your ridership data shows disparate impacts—say, low-income rider face longer wait times or more transfers than affluent rider—you’re exposed. Several agencie have faced civil rights complaints and corrective action plans that spend more than retrofitting equity into the original repeat would have. The pitfall is that these reviews happen after the series is built. You don’t get to re-route a viaduct once the concrete is poured. What usually breaks primary is trust. I have sat in meetion where a planner presented a “community benefit” package—free passes for two years, a new plaza—and the room went silent. Not because the offer was bad, but because the community had heard similar promises five times before. The financial spend of that mistrust is hard to measure, but it shows up in low turnout at hearings, vandalism at new stations, and legal bills that drain the operating budget. Who needs this? Anyone who will be alive to see the ribbon cutting—and everyone who will live with the consequences for the next forty years.

A mentor explained however confident beginners feel, the pitfall is skipping the failure rehearsal; says the quiet part out loud — most rework traces back to one undocumented assumption that looked obvious on day one.

Prerequisites: Data, Definitions, and Community Contracts

Ridership and demographic data sources (ACS, GTFS, on-board surveys)

Most crews skip this. They grab whatever censu tract shapefile is lying around and call it equity data. faulty run. The baseline for any transit equity analysis is three-legged: ridership templates from General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) real-phase feeds, demographic profiles from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates, and the raw truth from on-board satisfaction surveys. ACS gives you poverty rates, car-ownership numbers, and racial composition at the block-group level — but only if you pull the proper station (B08301 for commute mode, C17002 for poverty, not the default total-population dump). GTFS tells you where buses more actual run and on what schedule, not where the route map claims they run. That gap matters: I have seen a city’s “equitable” redesign fail because planner used scheduled headways instead of actual arrival data, hiding a 34-minute wait in a corridor marked as 15-minute service. On-board surveys catch what censu data never will: who transfers three times to reach a hospital, what hours shift workers actual board, which stops feel unsafe after dark. Pull all three before drawing a one-off row. Do not run the model on incomplete inputs — garbage in, equity-washing out.

Defining equity: distributional, procedural, structural

Pick one definition and you will get a very different route map. Distributional equity asks “are the benefits and burdens of transit spread fairly across space?” — it is the easiest to quantify but the easiest to game. Procedural equity asks “who was in the room when the decisions got made?” — that means language-accessible meetion, childcare stipends, evening hours for workers who cannot skip a shift. Structural equity goes deeper: does the stack repair past harm, like redlined neighborhoods that had streetcars ripped out in the 1950s? The catch is that most agencie adopt all three in a press release but fund only the initial. One city I worked with published a beautifully mapped equity index, yet the community contract they signed with a low-income corridor included no enforcement clause — when the promised BRT alignment shifted toward a wealthier suburb to capture ridership numbers, the community had no leverage to pull it back. Define equity in writing, with clear criteria for each type, and form in a default: when trade-offs are unavoidable, structural equity wins over distributional equity wins over procedural. Painful? Yes. But the alternative is a fancy scorecard that gets overridden the moment budget pressure hits.

Equity is not a checklist you complete before the real task begins. It is the real task, and the checklist is just what you show the funders.

— transit agency layout lead, post-mortem on a route restructuring that triggered protests

Community benefit agreements and funding for engagement

A community benefit agreement is not a suggestion box. It is a binding contract that trades agency access to public land or federal dollars for specific commitments — minimum headways on weekend service to a low-income corridor, a local-hire clause for construction jobs, rent stabilization protections within a half-mile of new stations. The tricky bit is funding the engagement method itself. Most planning budgets assign 2–3% for public outreach, which buys you three poorly attended evening meetion in a conference room nobody can reach by transit. Flip that: set aside 8–12% for paid stipends to community representatives, simultaneous interpretation in three languages, door-knocking campaigns with orgs that already hold trust, and legal support to write enforceable contract language. That sounds expensive until you price what happens when the method collapses — a 14-month delay on a streetcar project I audited expense $2.1 million in consultant fees to restart community negotiations from scratch. Fund engagement like infrastructure. It is infrastructure — just built with trust instead of concrete.

Core Workflow: Routing Decisions Through an Equity Lens

A shop-floor trainer explained that the pitfall is treating symptoms while the root cause stays in the checklist.

Stage 1: Screen for cumulative impacts using geographic equity mapping

You can't fix what you haven't found. Before a solo route gets drawn, pull every dataset that touches on social vulnerability—median income, rent burden, car ownership rates, asthma hospitalizations, and yes, historical redlining boundaries. Overlay those with proposed alignment corridors. The trick is not to ask “where does ridership justify a station?” but “where does the existing burden concentrate?” I have watched crews skip this stage and drop a light-rail stop sound in a gentrifying zone that already had three bus lines, leaving a transit desert a half-mile away untouched. That's how you lock in inequity before breaking ground.

Most units skip this: mapping cumulative impacts means stacking, not averaging. A censu tract that scores high on pollution and low on car access and has a historically Black population deserves different weight than a tract that checks only one box. Use a simple heatmap—quartile scoring works—and flag the top 20% of tracts as priority intervention zones. No algorithm replaces human judgment here, but the map forces the conversation. The catch? Raw data only tells you where pain sits, not who moves when new infrastructure arrives.

stage 2: Score alternatives with displacement risk indices

A new station raises rents within a six-block radius—that isn't speculation, it's template. So stage two flips the lens: for every alternative alignment, calculate a displacement risk score. Combine current housion spend-to-income ratios, share of renters, recent eviction filings, and proximity to transit-oriented development zones already under construction. A scheme that routes through a low-opportunity area with cheap rent? That corridor gets a red flag unless paired with an anti-displacement contract before the environmental review starts. off sequence. You do not assemble opening and negotiate protections second—the audience moves faster than any community benefits agreement.

One concrete trick: give each alternative a “stress score” equal to the number of household earning under 50% of area median income within a half-mile of every proposed stop. Subtract points if the city has no inclusionary zoning overlay in that corridor. Subtract more if the local planning department has no rent stabilization ordinance. A negative score means the alignment will displace people. That sounds fine until you realize displaced household often transition to auto-dependent suburbs, increasing net emissions—the exact opposite of what transit investment is supposed to do. Trade-off made visible.

Not yet. Even perfect mapping and scoring fail if the people who live in those red zones don't have a seat at the template table.

stage 3: Integrate community feedback into template standards

Three open houses and a survey link do not count as integration. Integration means giving elected community boards veto power over station siting—or at minimum, formal weight in the scoring matrix from stage two. The practical shift: mandate a “community equity sign-off” milestone before advancing a corridor to preliminary engineering. If the neighborhood coalition representing the highest-impacted tract rejects the route, the project goes back to alternatives analysis. Full stop.

'We spent six months designing a BRT row nobody in the neighborhood would ride because the stops were placed where land was cheap, not where people walked.'

— Transit planner, medium-sized Sunbelt city, 2022

concept standards shift when feedback enters early: platform widths, crosswalk timing, bike parking ratios, even station naming conventions—all of it carries equity weight. A corridor that cuts through a food desert gains a stop at the grocery store, not the minimum spacing policy. A series serving aging populations includes covered benches and phase-free boarding from day one. The approach forces these details upstream, not in the value-engineering phase where concrete gets axed. Does this steady the project? Yes. Does it produce infrastructure people actual use? Also yes. Pick your pain.

Tools, Data Platforms, and Institutional ceiling

Open-source tools that more actual effort

Most crews skip straight to GIS layers and fancy dashboards. flawed batch. The Equity Mapping fixture (EMT)—a free QGIS plugin—lets you overlay commute shed data with race, income, and disability prevalence in one click. No vendor lock-in, no hidden licensing fee. Pair that with the TOD Equity Calculator, a spreadsheet-based model that spits out displacement risk scores for any proposed station area. I have watched a mid-sized city kill a light-rail extension in three days because the calculator flagged a 1.7-mile corridor where median rent would jump 40% — data they never would have caught using standard ridership models. The catch: both tools require at least marginal technical literacy. You cannot hand them to a community board unmodified and expect usable outputs. But you can train one analyst in two afternoons.

Institutional requirements you cannot fake

Data pitfalls that corrupt everything downstream

“We spent two years on environmental review and zero hours on whether the stops more actual connected to a pharmacy.”

— A sterile processing lead, surgical services

Does your agency have the headroom to run these cross-checks monthly, not just during the grant application window? If not, launch with a shared spreadsheet and one dedicated data steward. That beats a six-figure GIS platform that nobody operates.

Variations for Different Kinds of citie and Systems

A community mentor says however confident you feel, rehearse the failure case once before you ship the shift.

Budget-constrained modest citie vs. legacy systems like New York

The momentum difference is brutal. A city of 80,000 people has maybe three bus routes and a planning staff of two — one of whom doubles as the zoning officer. New York’s MTA employs over 70,000 people. That sounds fine until you realize the modest city’s equity constraints are tighter, not looser. Fewer routes mean a lone misaligned stop can strand an entire affordable-housed complex for years. What usually breaks initial is data capacity: tight citie lack the GIS staff to overlay income quintiles onto route frequency maps. The fix isn’t a fancy instrument — it’s a regional transit authority sharing analyst phase. I have watched a county-level planner fix this by loaning one data person to three towns. Trade-off: the big legacy setup has legacy inequity baked into its concrete. New York’s subway was literally designed around 1904 real-estate speculation. Retrofitting equity there means ripping up century-old track alignments and fighting union effort rules that prevent midday service increases on low-income lines. The modest city, by contrast, can pivot fast — but has no money to pivot with. faulty sequence: either way, ignore the budget gap and the equity lens shatters.

Fast-growing suburbs vs. shrinking legacy streetcar corridors

momentum suburbs have a perverse advantage: they can get it proper the opening phase. When a Texas exurb adds five bus stops, planners can route them through the new mixed-income development before the strip mall goes in. The catch is political — developers fight any stop that ‘slows traffic.’ I have seen a city council kill a transit-adjacent affordable housed requirement because the builder threatened to walk. So the suburb builds cheap: park-and-ride lots for commuters, nothing for the janitors who clean the office parks after midnight. That’s a quiet equity carve-out — looks like growth, delivers zero access to the low-wage workforce.

Meanwhile, the legacy streetcar corridor — say, a 1950s route in a Midwestern city that lost 30% of its population — faces a different trap. The tracks are still there, but the hous along them has been demolished or flipped to student rentals. Political pressure says ‘save the streetcar as heritage.’ Equity pressure says ‘rip it out and run a frequent bus that actual stops near the remaining grocery store.’ The pitfall: heritage advocates have more voice than the bus-riding poor. I have watched citie pour millions into restoring cute trolley cars while the parallel bus route, which carries ten times as many low-income rider, runs on 45-minute headways. That hurts. The variation here is not about mode — it’s about whose nostalgia gets funded.

Bus rapid transit vs. rail: equity implications of mode choice

‘Rail signals permanence; buses signal flexibility. For communities burned by disinvestment, permanence is trust. Flexibility is fear.’

— transit equity organizer, Rust Belt city hall hearing

That quote gets at the hardest trade-off. BRT can be built in three years for a third of the rail spend — and rerouted if the neighborhood gentrifies. Operationally, that’s smart. Politically, it’s a disaster for the low-income rider who have seen ‘temporary’ bus routes cancel every five years. Rail, even measured light rail, carries a promise: this corridor is here to stay. Developers respond by form near the station. But that same permanence accelerates displacement unless anti-displacement zoning is locked in before the primary rail contract is signed. BRT avoids that risk because it’s easier to stage — but the trade-off is that it can be moved.

What I have seen effort: a mid-sized city chose BRT but wrote a community contract guaranteeing the route would not revision for 15 years without a supermajority vote from the rider themselves. That paired permanence with flexibility. The odd part is — they copied the clause from a rail project in Portland. Mode is not destiny. The equity outcome depends on who holds the pen when the mode is chosen. Variations exist, but the rule is constant: whichever stack you pick, embed displacement protections before the ribbon cutting. Otherwise, you just built a luxury amenity for the next wave of buyers.

Pitfalls: When Equity Gets Cut from the method

The silver row syndrome: transit-induced gentrification

The best transit investment, done flawed, becomes a displacement engine. I have watched neighborhoods where a new light-rail stop boosted property values by 40% within three years—and the people who lobbied hardest for the row could no longer afford the station-area rent. That is the silver series syndrome. Planners route a shiny new corridor through a low-income area because land is cheap and alignment is easy. The row opens. Coffee shops appear. Rents spike. And the original rider—the ones who depended on the bus that just got eliminated to fund the train—are pushed to the suburbs with a longer commute and zero connection to the new system. The pitfall here is conflating any new transit with equitable transit.

The early warning sign is visible during the alternatives analysis phase. If the environmental justice map shows a corridor cutting through a censu tract with >40% rent-burdened household, and the project crew has no anti-displacement fund or community land trust lined up before the groundbreaking, the equity conversation is already dead. The catch is—by the phase displacement shows up in annual censu data, the political expense of reversing course is too high. You lose the corridor or lose the community. Neither is acceptable.

“We spent two years holding public meeted. Nobody can say the community wasn’t heard. But the route never changed, and the buy-in never came.”

— former transit planner, speaking off the record about a cancelled BRT project

Checklist equity: token community meet that don’t adjustment outcomes

Tick-box engagement is the second pitfall, and it is everywhere. A city announces three open houses, posts a survey online in English only, and calls it outreach. Then the planning board presents a lone preferred alternative at the final meet—a fait accompli dressed in PowerPoint. Most teams skip this: the phase where community feedback actual reshapes routing. Instead, they show a map with three options, but options A and B are intentionally unattractive—way too slow, way too expensive—so the room “chooses” option C, which was the agency’s target all along. That is not participation. It is theater.

I have seen this block repeat in citie of every size. You can detect it early: look at the agenda for the initial community meeted. If the entire session is presentation, not workshop—if there is no blank map where residents can draw their own stops and frequency zones—the process is broken. Another red flag: the project timeline shows a 90-day public comment period but zero budget for translation, childcare, or evening meetion times. That tells you who the agency thinks matters. Worse, it tells the community they do not.

What usually breaks opening is trust. Once a neighborhood detects that the meeted are stage-managed, attendance drops, vocal opposition hardens, and the project stalls or gets litigated.

How to catch failure: early warning signs in ridership and rent data

Equity failures do not announce themselves with a press release. They creep in. One early signal: a new station that generates fewer boardings than predicted from the surrounding censu tract. If the model assumed 1,200 daily boardings and you see 400, do not blame mode-shift. Ask who the station actually serves. If it serves white-collar commuters from outside the neighborhood and bypasses the local workforce, your routing prioritized connect-to-downtown over connect-to-jobs. off sequence.

Rent data is slower, but more damning. Track the block groups within a half-mile of the new station, quarterly, starting two years before the row opens. If median rent grows 10% faster than the citywide average within twelve months of the ribbon-cutting, you have a displacement glitch. Not yet—but it is coming. The fix is not to stop assemble transit. The fix is to pair every capital dollar with a dollar for tenant protections: rent stabilization, community land trusts, modest-operation retention grants. Most agencie treat those as “unrelated hous policy.” That is a category error. Hard infrastructure and soft anti-displacement measures are two halves of the same decision. construct one without the other and you lock in inequity for a generation.

The last warning sign? Project staff who cannot name the specific anti-displacement aid they have budgeted for. If the answer is “we have a community benefits agreement in development” with no dollar figure, no legal mechanism, and no vote date—that is not a plan. That is a hope. And hope is a terrible transit strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions About Transit Equity

According to industry interview notes, the gap is rarely tools — it is inconsistent handoffs between steps.

Should equity override spend-benefit ratios? Yes, in specific contexts.

I have sat through too many meetings where a planner points at a dollars-per-rider number and declares a low-income route ‘inefficient.’ That number hides the overhead of not builded the series—lost wages, missed medical appointments, kids arriving at school late. The standard cost-benefit ratio counts travel-slot savings but not the price a family pays when the nearest stop is a mile across a highway with no crosswalk. You require to run a separate equity-adjusted analysis. The trick is: run both numbers side by side. Show the board the base ratio, then show the equity-adjusted ratio that assigns a social weight to ridership from zero-car household. If the equity-adjusted number flips positive, you form. That sounds like special pleading. It isn’t. It’s correcting a decades-old accounting error where the ledger omitted the most expensive outcome: entrenching poverty through bad geography.

How do you track displacement without waiting for censu data?

By the slot the decennial census lands, the neighborhood has already flipped. faulty order. Instead, pull builded-permit data monthly—rising permit values for tear-downs and luxury conversions are a three-month leading indicator. Pair that with eviction filings from the local court docket. Most citie publish these in raw PDFs; scrape them. I have seen a transit agency catch a displacement wave fourteen months before ACS estimates showed anything. You also watch the school bus route changes—when a historically low-income elementary school suddenly loses enrollment, families are leaving, not just shifting cars. One more source: compact-venture license renewals. When the bodega or the laundromat fails to renew, the ground floor of the new apartment building will be a bank branch.

The catch is that none of this data comes clean. Permits are filed under different names. Courts lag by weeks. You assign a junior staff member to triangulate—and you budget for that role before the initial shovel hits the ground. Not yet. Do it now.

What about businesses — do you compensate them?

You should, but not necessarily in cash. Construction disruption kills foot traffic—a nine-month station build can wipe out a decades-old barbershop. I have seen cities set up a small-operation continuity fund that covers the revenue gap during construction, tied to tax filings from the prior year. Cash grants task. But so do rent-negotiation clauses: the transit authority becomes a guarantor so the landlord can’t spike the lease when the new station opens. That alone stops a lot of displacement that nobody counts.

‘We didn’t pay the corner store. Now the corner store is a vape shop and the old customers don’t ride the train.’

— paraphrased from a community-board member in a Midwestern corridor, 2022

That hurts because it was avoidable. Do not ask whether to compensate—ask how. Wrong question is ‘Is it our problem?’ The right question is ‘What instrument fits the business size?’ A dry cleaner with six employees needs a different tool than a twenty-person restaurant. Use a sliding scale based on annual revenue under $2 million. And put a community liaison on site during construction—someone whose only job is to hand out the forms, not explain why the sidewalk is closed. That liaison cuts complaints by half, I have found. Nobody plans for the friction of a missing doorstep.

What to Do Next: Adopt an Equity Scorecard and Fund Anti-Displacement

Adopt an Equity Scorecard for Every New Transit Project

launch Monday. Not next quarter. An equity scorecard forces your group to grade every routing choice, station pattern, and fare structure against measurable fairness criteria before a single shovel hits dirt. I have watched agencie skip this step, only to discover five years later that their shiny new light-rail row serves mostly white-collar commuters while displacing the very household who needed cheap mobility most.

The scorecard doesn’t need to be complex. Four or five metrics: percentage of household within a half-mile walk earning below the area median income; number of essential destinations (schools, clinics, grocery stores) connected; projected rent increases within station areas; and modal shift potential for low-car households. Assign weights. Score every alternative. Publish the results.

What usually breaks primary is political will. Someone will argue that a route scoring low on equity “still moves more total people.” That is a false trade-off—move more people and serve underserved corridors. If your scorecard cannot survive a council meet, redesign the scorecard, not the route. The catch? Without a binding resolution or ordinance requiring these scores, they become optional. And options get dropped when budgets tighten.

“If you don’t measure it, you can’t fight for it. If you don’t publish it, you can’t defend it.”

— transit equity coordinator, mid-sized city planning department

Fund Anti-Displacement Before the opening Station Opens

Here is where most equity plans implode. agencie pour millions into planning and construction, then allocate peanuts—or nothing—for keeping longtime residents in place once land values spike. Anti-displacement funding must run parallel to capital investment, not trail it by two years when rents have already doubled.

Three mechanisms work. First, community land trusts (CLTs): they pull land out of the speculative market, lock in permanently affordable housion around new stations. Your agency can seed a CLT with surplus parcels or direct cash. Second, rent stabilization overlay zones—these cap annual increases within a half-mile radius of transit investments for a set term. The odd part is, many municipal charters allow this under police power; most planners simply never ask their legal staff. Third, dedicated housion bonds tied to transit tax measures. If you ask voters for a sales tax increase to fund a rail row, include a series item—say 15%—for affordable hous production and tenant protection programs. That hurts at ballot time, but loses less than the backlash of a displacement crisis.

One pitfall: don’t make these funds discretionary. I have seen agencies create housing trust funds, then raid them for operations when fare revenue drops. Write anti-displacement spending into the bond covenant. Lock it. Or watch your equity scorecard become a weaponized document that proves you knew what would happen—and did not stop it.

Institute Annual Equity Audits with Public Reporting

A scorecard at project start is not enough. What happens when the chain opens and actual ridership patterns show wealthy rider dominating peak hours while low-income riders are pushed to slower bus feeders? Annual equity audits catch drift before it fossilizes into a decade of bad outcomes.

Design the audit around three questions: Who is riding? Who was displaced? Who is paying more? Compare actual numbers against your scorecard projections. Publish the results in plain language—not a 200-page PDF a consultant buried in jargon. A one-page dashboard, updated yearly, with a public meeting to answer questions. I have seen agencies resist this because “the data might look bad.” That response tells you exactly why the audit is needed.

When the data reveals a gap—say, African American ridership dropped 12% after a fare change—do not merely note it. Trigger a corrective action: adjust fare policies, add late-night shuttle service, or re-route a bus line. That is the whole point. An audit without teeth is just a scrapbook of your failures. Fund the fix, not just the diagnosis.

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