Five Media Myths That Perpetuate Car Culture

Short summary of Streetsblog New York City by Catherine Lutz
Americans love their cars. (Americans may need their cars in our transit-starved and poorly planned landscape, but with mind-numbing traffic and volatile gas prices, the luster is off the chrome.)
Teens can’t wait to grab the car keys. (It’s the adults that are fed up with schlepping their kids in an auto-centric world.)
The economy depends on the auto industry. [The economy depends on people buying a diverse range of goods not sinking most of their income into one thing. ]
The America car industry can return to its former glory. [ROFLMA]
We can’t fix the car system because poor people will suffer. (Of course, no group suffers under our current car system more than the poor,)

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https://www.streetsblog.org/2011/05/23/five-media-myths-that-perpetuate-car-culture/oldId.20110523134254352