Racing away from Carmageddon: The tame souls behind books arguing against cars

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They treat the desire for private transportation in one’s automobile as an inexplicable and irrational evil.

There are eight kittens running around my little rural property as you read this. Three of them are utterly feral, as is their mother, and I see them mostly as ephemeral moments of motion between trees or through the grass. The other five were brought into my barn by their mother shortly after birth. You can handle them, and sometimes they will consent to sit on your lap — but any attempt to shut them up in the barn, even during bad weather, is intolerable to them.

The principled and classically liberal opposition of Daniel Patrick Moynihan to congestion pricing in New York City during the ’70s is shaded thus: “Moynihan, a senator who, a decade before, had argued that it was family breakdown causing problems in African American society, rather than the ghettos created by the combination of racism and automobiles.

Grabar, relying on his own research in addition to that of Shoup, makes a solid case that there is simply too much parking, sold to motorists at a fraction of its actual cost. His most interesting point is that street parking tends to be cheaper and more convenient than garage parking, leading to nontrivial extra traffic on streets, more unpleasant interactions, more agitation, and largely empty parking garages. And, below a certain price level, people will simply store their cars on the street.

 

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