{"id":228843847,"date":"2012-04-02T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228843847"},"modified":"2012-04-02T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:44:07","slug":"rethinking-the-automobile-with-mark-gorton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228843847","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Automobile (with Mark Gorton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This is a must watch video for any bike\/ped advocate and planner. The following accompanies the video]<br \/>\n*********************************************************************************************<br \/>\nby Clarence Eckerson, Jr., Street Films<br \/>\nFor more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport. Working under the faulty assumption that more car traffic would improve business, planners and engineers have systematically made our streets more dangerous and less livable. As a result, even the idea that a street could truly be a \u201cplace\u201d \u2013 a shared space for human interaction and play \u2013 has been almost completely destroyed.<br \/>\nDuring his decade long effort to understand and improve the streets of New York City, entrepreneur and livable streets advocate Mark Gorton has gathered together a compelling set of examples of how transportation policy impacts the quality of our daily lives. Mark is regularly invited to speak in public about these issues.<br \/>\nIn his current presentation \u201cRethinking the Automobile\u201d Mark explores the history of autocentric planning and considers how New York and other cities can change. Filled with ample video footage of dozens of Streetfilms, we\u2019ve worked with Mark to create a version of the presentation here.<br \/>\nAs the founder of Streetfilms, Streetsblog, OpenPlans, and the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign, Gorton has been on the front lines of the battle to transform New York\u2019s streets. But Mark is not done fighting. He contends that the recent improvements that have been implemented in New York should only be considered as the \u201ctip of the iceberg\u201d and that a truly comprehensive set of changes are still necessary.<br \/>\nFor more on Mark\u2019s continued efforts to make our world more equitable, livable, and safe visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rethinktheauto.org\">www.rethinktheauto.org<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/rethinking-the-automobile-with-mark-gorton\/\">https:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/rethinking-the-automobile-with-mark-gorton\/<\/a>oldId.20120402154407620<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This is a must watch video for any bike\/ped advocate and planner. The following accompanies the video] ********************************************************************************************* by Clarence Eckerson, Jr., Street Films For more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport. Working under the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228843847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rethinking the Automobile (with Mark Gorton)&#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-228843847","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\/228843847","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=228843847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228843847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228843847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228843847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228843847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}