The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Good morning and congrats to Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear and Aaron Naparstek on Pub Day for their first book, “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile.”
As the creators of the wildly popular podcast the War On Cars, the three advocates have made a career of using provocative statements about transportation and the wild assumptions they conjure up — “cyclists and pedestrians hate automobiles and want to rip the SUV out of your garage!”, for instance — to lure audiences into a more nuanced conversation about America’s harmful and deeply auto-centric transportation culture.
Check out our review of “Life After Cars” at the link below — plus today’s headlines and the latest dispatch from Vision Zero Cities Journal.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
