Wired: It's Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars

The Wired mag website on cities, cars and the problem:

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/02/art-center-summ.html

> Los Angeles and countless other cities - Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta
> come to mind - are far more friendly to cars than people, having been
> built according to land use policies that all but put people behind
> the wheel. It's an unsustainable model, and it must change.
> 
> That was the message transportation planner Timothy Papandreou
> brought to "Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility," a
> symposium sponsored by the Art Center College of Design. The school
> could be called the Harvard of transportation design, and two-day
> conference drew experts in fields as varied as urban planning and
> aerospace engineering to discuss where the future of mobility lies.
> 
> Papandreou called for an end to "state, federal, and local land use
> policies that are literally forcing people to have to drive" and told
> Wired.com we're on the cusp of an inevitable "mode shift" away from
> individual car ownership toward a greater reliance on mass transit
> and sustainable transport.


best regards,

marcin hyla
-- 
Miasta dla rowerów http://www.rowery.org.pl

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