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Mike Henderson

It's Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars | Autopia from Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by Mike Henderson on 21 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Papandreou called for an end to "state, federal, and local land use policies that are literally forcing people to have to drive" and told Wired.com we're on the cusp of an inevitable "mode shift" away from individual car ownership toward a greater reliance on mass transit and sustainable transport.
  • "cars have a right to housing and people don't."
  • It's brought us to the point where most Americans consider automobile ownership an essential key to a productive, fulfilling life.
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  • Consider this: 200 people can jam the I-405 riding along in 177 cars (the average ratio). Or they could use just two lanes in three city buses, or have plenty of personal space around them if they rode bikes.
  • Mike Henderson on 21 Feb 09
     
    Los Angeles and countless other cities - Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta come to mind - are far more friendly to cars than people, having been built according to land use policies that all but put people behind the wheel. It's an unsustainable model, and it must change.
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