Without a Car in the World: 100 Car-less Angelinos Tell Stories of Living in Los Ange
10-05-09, 10:16 AM
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Without a Car in the World: 100 Car-less Angelinos Tell Stories of Living in Los Ange
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10-05-09, 06:05 PM
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I liked this:
I run into more than a few people who survive... yes, even in the mid-west... without a car. The more successful ones seem to live close to the downtown core or near Drake university. But I also see a number of suburbanites who commute apparently every day.... although I'm not sure what they do in winter (usually they disappear over the winter.)
"I met people from a wide range of backgrounds, socio-economic levels, occupations, and heard an amazing range of reasons for not driving. I met single moms, teachers, writers, consultants, comediennes, actors, urban planners, computer programmers, analysts, bakery workers, students, and unemployed. I met people whose physical disabilities kept them off the road, and people who did not drive because of firm ideologies about the detrimental effects of car culture. Others had been in accidents, their cars had blown up, they were afraid to drive, they lost their licenses after receiving a third DUI, they preferred bicycles, or they were simply tired of spending so much on a car."
10-05-09, 09:33 PM
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Roody, thanks for posting the link to the photo exhibit. If I happen to be around Santa Monica in the next month or so, I'll stop by and check it out. I live about 50 miles south of LA in the Orange County megalopolis. Although my area is more tame than the streets of LA for cycling, it is liberating to live in such a large metro area and be able to use a bicycle as my primary means of transportation, year round.
10-05-09, 10:42 PM
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I hope this photo exhibit goes on the net for the rest of the world to see. It's good to see the a functional car free movement in LA instead of always originating in cities like Boston, New York or Chicago.
