Touches on a lot of issues, though missed the role land use choices play. The burden placed on the poor is terrible. Reminds me of a story I heard recently in the neighborhood of a woman in a income qualified apt whose car window was broken three times in a month, and she just couldn't afford the third replacement. She'd be way better off not needing a car at all, but a car has become a prosthetic.
RFT - In Car-Loving St. Louis, Pedestrians, Cyclists and Transit Riders Have Many Miles to Go
On his way home from running errands, Robert Schmidt doesn't appear to be in much of a hurry. The octogenarian pumps the pedals of the bicycle perhaps once per second, his trousered legs bending outward in a diamond shape around him. Four plastic grocery bags are strapped to his handlebars, two to a side, and the orange cap of a repurposed Gatorade bottle peeps out from his rear left pocket. Passing drivers, to their credit, afford him plenty of room on the neighborhood street.
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Statistics: Posted by quincunx — Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:23 pm