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Seniors And Walkable Neighborhoods
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 11:34amI occasionally read that seniors are likely to be a strong constituency for walkable, public-transit oriented neighborhoods. This argument runs as follows: seniors gradually lose the ability to drive as they get older. Thus, they are eventually going to need more transit and more walkabl... read more »
Americans are more multimodal than some might think
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 7:26amBecause most Americans drive to work on any given day, one might think that they don't use any other mode of transportation, ever. But a recent review of federal transportation surveys shows otherwise. In fact, 65 percent of American commuters take at least one non-car trip per wee... read more »
Cities, Suburbs and Commute Length
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 05/08/2014 - 5:20pmI recently discovered a fun tool: the Census Bureau's Census Explorer, which is full of maps about all kinds of things. In particular, I spent some time exploring commute length.
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Suburbia Not Always Cheaper
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 04/04/2014 - 9:28amA story from a coworker of mine: Mr. X (the coworker) and his family move from Queens to Long Island to take advantage of the allegedly better public schools. As a result, they are able to save money by pulling their children out of Catholic school. Were they better off? Appa... read more »
Another Way To Measure Car Dependence
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 9:30amI got into an argument on Twitter about how widespread car ownership was in NYC's outer boroughs, which in turn caused me to go to city-data.com to answer the question: how do you measure how many people own cars, anyhow? The City Data website has data not just for cities and counties, but for indiv... read more »
Using terminology to frame the debate
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 1:57pmI recently saw a listserv post with the headline "the costs of automobilism." The phrase "automobilism" makes automobile dependence seem like an alien ism, a sinister ideology like communism or fascism.
By contrast, sprawl lobby types prefer the term "auto-mobility." By associatin... read more »
The News From Sprawl Is Not Good
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 11/02/2012 - 9:01amGiven the widespread public transit closings in the 48 hours before Hurricane Sandy, it could be argued that one advantage of a car-centric society is that cars enable quick evacuation (assuming that people aren't stuck in traffic).
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War on Cars? Or War on the Carless?
Submitted by norabeck on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 11:46amSeattle's Publicola, in anticipation of an upcoming panel discussion on the War on Cars, invited two of their panelists to guest editorials. David Roberts, from Grist, wrote The War on the Carless.
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Michael Moore says farewell to GM ... and cars?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 12:21pmIn the wreckage of General Motors, Michael Moore senses salvation: The demise of GM as we’ve known it offers a tremendous opportunity to catch up to the rest of the world where high-speed passeng
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