John Norquist on How to Fix National Transportation Policy
“It’s not roads versus transit — it’s good street networks-plus-transit versus mindless building of out-of-scale roads. I mean they’re basically putting rural roads into urbanized areas and it’s counterproductive, it reduces the value of the economy, it destroys jobs, destroys real estate value. For what, so you can drive fast at two in the morning when you’re drunk?”
Not just for driving drunk, suburban curves and cul-de-sacs also create a sensation of relaxed independence as the steering wheel gradually glides underneath your palms on your way home from work. Off the clock, off the grid.
↓ 28 Mar 2009
