Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
I live on one of a series of streets that are all about 1000 feet in length and dead end at the river front bike paths. One sad day last year I overheard a father tell his daughter (around ten years old) that if she wanted to go to her friend's house up the street she would have to wait for him to drive her there.
If that's not all the evidence we need that our current version of car culture is failing us, I don't know what is (other than the 40k annual deaths, 4M annual injuries, diabetes epidemic, heart disease epidemic and other sedentary lifestyle diseases, that is).
Observe the manner in which cars are advertised today (or perhaps forever): Cars are sold by demonstration of speed. Movies are made showing cars driving at full throttle through traffic. We have no advertisements noting gas mileage save as a secondary detail. Even Prius now is advertising large engines with a lot of horsepower.
The latest generation is so sensitive to macho advertisements that they are almost forced to emulate it.
These are your children and grandchildren. And the deaths caused by this and the disregard for the laws that grow from these sorts of things do nothing more than grow all crimes.