It's a good video to bookmark because it shows how designing a city and its roads creates car culture and generates a need for "car".
And then trying to change the culture takes some conscious effort, but once in embedded and used daily, people forget the past.
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11-02-2011, 04:57 PM #1
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11-03-2011, 08:48 AM #2
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That was definitely worth the 6 minutes I spent on it. Thanks for sharing.
It's interesting to me that we experienced the same post-WWII boom, the push for cars, the rising bike/ped deaths, and the same 70's oil crisis, but it took another 40 years before we started pushing back.
It's always comforting to hear that the paragons of bike culture like the Netherlands and Portland started off just like us. They had to break free of their car culture too.2009 Trek 7.2FX WSD, brooks Champion Flyer S, commuter bike
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