car_free_america

27/11/2024

To achieve perfect parking, we sacrifice everything

from Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise

26/09/2024

Detroit is coming back to life!

Credit to for finding this streetview

24/09/2024

"What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? What if we are prevented from catalyzing workable and vital cities because the practical steps needed to do so are in conflict with the practical steps demanded by erosion? [...] In that case we Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubles men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles." —Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

30/08/2024

28/08/2024

The fact that we don't think twice about taking the car to the parking lot to the escalator to the treadmill in order to walk is one reason why we now have the first generation of Americans expected to live shorter lives than their parents

Excerpt from Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck

25/08/2024

The Obvious Answer to Homelessness: Allow More Housing To Be Built

Excerpts from The Atlantic article "The Obvious Answer to Homelessness and Why Everyone's Ignoring It" by Jerusalem Demsas

25/08/2024

The scarcity of housing causes homelessness—not anything else

Excerpts from The Atlantic article "The Obvious Answer to Homelessness and Why Everyone's Ignoring It" by Jerusalem Demsas

02/08/2024

Cars are the least efficient way of transportation and stroads are the worst form of car infrastructure, failing both to move people and to provide access to destinations

01/08/2024

Lively streets are slow streets

Excerpt from Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl

31/07/2024

What makes city streets lively?

Adapted excerpt from Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl.

03/07/2024

Americans spend too much time driving that takes time away from walking—and thus from life

The quote is from the boom Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl.

21/06/2024

Congestion Pricing NOW!

Congestion pricing is a program to charge drivers entering a certain congested part of cities during rush hour, saving drivers time, reducing traffic congestion, alleviating noise and pollution, and making streets safer for everyone. And yes it also generates revenue that can be used to improve transit (NYC's is earmarked for the MTA projects). And Governor Kathy Hochul, who was once a supporter, indefinitely "delayed" it less than a month before its implementation.

We cannot afford to congest our streets with the least efficient mode of transport any longer. We need congestion pricing now.

Please call your electeds!

16/06/2024

If we allow housing to be built, then we fix housing crisis

10/06/2024

We need congestion pricing - let's fight for NYC's congestion pricing

Please support so we can have the first congestion pricing in America implemented

23/04/2024

Why don't kids go outside anymore?

22/04/2024

Dense, walkable cities not only save nature, but make for better cities. Why aren't we building this way anymore?

Let's save Earth by building denser, walkable cities that also make us happier, healthier, and more connected.

18/04/2024

Why do state DOT's keep building highways? Because they are also in charge of predicting the demand for highways.

If you give the power to estimate demand for roads to road engineers, of course they will say the demand is going to go up. Let's follow what the real trend says. America already has too much highways.