#car-centric

[fairynisse]

I hate my city. Can’t even walk a few minutes alone to my car after sunset on the sidewalk without some man trying to offer me a ride. Like, let me be a pedestrian in peace. It’s not strange to be walking on the damn sidewalk in a city. I don’t know you man. I am not going to get in a stranger’s car alone.

[mmwm]

Write 28 Days: Landscape of Memory ~ Stranded

Write 28 Days: Landscape of Memory ~ Stranded

This month, I’m writing words and posting images relating to the landscape of memory. I hope to write poems most days and also share photos, quotes, and more prosaic thoughts related in some way to memory, nostalgia, longing for place, remembering and forgetting, landscape, dreamscape, landscape’s memory and memory’s landscape, the intersection of the layered historical physical world with…

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[julianworker]

Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’ When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcars in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?

[wakingupinogden-blog]

Tour de Plainfield Indiana

Tour de Plainfield Indiana

One of the nice things about moving into a new community is that it presents the opportunity to do a little exploring by bicycle.  That’s what I’ve been doing since moving into our interim home in Plainfield Indiana last Thursday evening.  I want to share some observations here.

It’s car-centric, but…

Plainfield is a typical car-centric suburb with lots of new development.  That said, the…

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[cityhaul]

Only in Atlanta

In a taxi going to Emory

Me: I was planning to take the train, then catch the #6 bus, but I got to Lindbergh late and missed the bus. I'd be really late for my appointment if I waited for the next one.

Taxi driver: You need a car!