Lost in traffic: does your time count?
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Traffic congestion studies make for quick and easy news articles, but they don’t even begin to calculate the true time lost to car culture.
Tag: car culture
How Britain fell in and out of love with roads
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
Welcome to the modern world. Just at the point in history when we needed to manage our consumption, we had installed all the conditions for a fossil-fuel driven boom in consumerism.
All the king’s horses
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
It would be folly to continue building bulky, heavy, massively overpowered vehicles to move one or two passengers along roads, and therefore devoting a huge share of our still scarce clean power supplies to building and/or operating that oversized vehicle fleet.
Hypermobility hits the wall
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Increasing mobility services for the world’s poorest people, while decreasing motorized mobility for the wealthiest, is not only an environmental necessity, it is also a matter of equity.
The high cost of speed
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Marohn argues that the questions of whether traffic should move slow or fast, and whether all existing traffic should be accommodated or instead should be restricted, are not technical issues – they are questions of values, questions of public policy.
‘Zero crashes, zero congestion, zero emissions’ – the perennial myths of autonomous vehicles
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
For a hundred years the auto industry has held out visions of a trouble-free future for drive-everywhere society – and that future is always about 20 years away. Peter Norton urges us to see the current hype about automated vehicles in the cold light of the failed promises of the past.
What We Encourage
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
I’ll also point out that while one set of choices is promoted, reinforced, and made as convenient as possible, the other set is shamed, challenged, or made as dangerous as possible.
The marginal uselessness of muscle-cars
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Mainstream environmentalism, while advocating a swift and thorough transition to zero-carbon technologies, clings to the belief that we can, will, indeed, we absolutely must retain our high-speed cars and trains...
Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Lithium Mine in Nevada
By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press
Thacker Pass is the site of a proposed lithium mine that would impact nearly 5700 acres—close to nine square miles—and which would include a giant open pit mine over two square miles in size, a sulfuric acid processing plant, and piles of tailings.
The Hundred Years’ War for Safe Streets
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
A transportation revolution must clearly be a big component of a Green New Deal. For anyone interested in exploring the many aspects of mobility justice, Right of Way is a must-read.
James Howard Kunstler: Living in the Long Emergency
By Charles Marohn, James Howard Kunstler, Strong Towns
In this fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Chuck and Jim look at the impact of the crisis on the automotive and airline industries, our food systems, and more.
The Fight for Right of Way
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Why is car culture so dominant in North American life? Is it a matter of personal preference, or is it the result of extensive advertising?Those are important factors – but University of Iowa law professor Gregory H. Shill says that auto dominance has also been cemented by a myriad of laws that favour drivers and discriminate against non-drivers.