Comments on: Auto age deathwatch

By: In (resort) town without my car « west north

In (resort) town without my car « west north — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:33:05 +0000

[...] society will need to re-learn these techniques of place-making, not only to respond to a post-car future but also to a growing population that doesn’t want to drive while on vacation — or at [...]

By: And the capital bill gets worse « west north

And the capital bill gets worse « west north — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:30:21 +0000

[...] Of course, there’s a lot that’s fundamentally wrong about the pavement emphasis in the bill: roads are simply the wrong answer. Roads are the wrong emphasis for a bill that G-Ro(a)d ostensibly keeps rah-rahing as a way to create jobs; mass transit generates many more jobs per dollar. Further, IDOT has infamously assumed that the nonstop VMT growth of the past 50 years will continue forever in a straight-line fashion, and thus that the demand for roads will insatiably grow into perpetuity — long after everyone is spending 24 hours a day driving. Of course, they’re wrong; VMT growth hit a wall several years ago and recently went into sharp reverse. [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:32:10 +0000

At my agency’s board meeting on Wednesday one board member said that it is feasible to imagine that the anti-sprawl folks fueled this increase in gas. We all, of course, know that this is not true, but the benefits and opportunities for development and transit are all in our favor.

By: Auto Age Deathwatch « Walking Turcot Yards

Auto Age Deathwatch « Walking Turcot Yards — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:05:52 +0000

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By: Americans abandoning cars in droves « Save Griffintown!

Americans abandoning cars in droves « Save Griffintown! — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:57:19 +0000

[...] Furthering the idea that there is no future in a car-oriented shopping development, check out this amazing post from my friend Payton Chung, who works for the CNU down in Chicago. Americans are discovering that [...]