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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.
The small expansion of e-car charging stations is a small down payment on the city’s larger plan to permanently allocate more public space for the automobile.
The average American car owner spends about $15,000 a year on their vehicle, according to a AAA analysis of Bureau of Labor statistics.
The small expansion of e-car charging stations is a small down payment on the city’s larger plan to permanently allocate more public space for the automobile.
What would you rather have — freeways or parks?
