{"id":131096860,"date":"2009-02-26T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131096860"},"modified":"2009-02-26T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:47:40","slug":"a-world-where-cars-have-a-right-to-housing-and-people-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131096860","title":{"rendered":"A world where \u201ccars have a right to housing and people don\u2019t\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wired, a transportation planner <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wired.com\/cars\/2009\/02\/art-center-summ.html\">makes an impassioned plea<\/a> for overhauling our car-centric mindset. Our cities have become places where \u201ccars have a right to housing and people don\u2019t,\u201d lamented Timothy Papandreau at a recent symposium called <em>Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/milwaukee_ek_2004_412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/milwaukee_ek_2004_412.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1633\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just think of the space required to support our car habit, he said: \u201cYou have to have a place to park at home, a place to park at work, and a place to park at retail establishments.\u201d  Not to mention how inefficiently our freeways use space \u2014 the 200 people that are carried (on average) by 177 cars could be carried by just three buses instead. \u201cAll that road space could become something else,\u201d he said, advocating for a comprehensive government initiative to disincentivize driving.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pps.org\/?p=1618\">https:\/\/blog.pps.org\/?p=1618<\/a>oldId.20090226074740267<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wired, a transportation planner makes an impassioned plea for overhauling our car-centric mindset. Our cities have become places where \u201ccars have a right to housing and people don\u2019t,\u201d lamented Timothy Papandreau at a recent symposium called Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility. Just think of the space required to support our car habit, he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131096860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A world where \u201ccars have a right to housing and people don\u2019t\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131096860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131096860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131096860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131096860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131096860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131096860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131096860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}