Remember this? A simple, creative way to make the really important point about the need for child-safe, all-ages & abilities PROTECTED bike-paths. Paint isn’t safe infrastructure, any more than stuffed animals are — if you wouldn’t let your kids ride in it, it isn’t safe, Period. #Berlin via @umwerfer.
We've built streetscapes that centre and prioritise cars before everything else. And then we wonder why kids don't play outside anymore, why they can't be independent. Entire parks, playgrounds, homes and other amenities have been demolished since the 50s to make space for parking and motorways and service stations. The cult of the #car has robbed us even of childhood.
This culture of anger that #CarCulture encourages has a very high cost. Lives are lost everyday inside and out of cars, but we've convinced ourselves that this is the only way to live. There's nothing we can do and these lives must be sacrificed in the altar of the #car.
Cars ruin cities. Cars ruin public transport, our health and our very lives.
Space for cars can never be enough because of the natural rules of geometry and maths. You cannot move that many people in their individual boxes. It is inefficient, wasteful and really at some point just plain impossible. The #car is quite unique in the way that it is a mode of #transport that really quickly becomes worse the more people use it.
