By Dom Nozzi
Since the emergence and rapid spread of car ownership and use in America since the early part of the 20th Century, the United States has taken a large number of ruinous, unsustainable actions to make life happy for cars rather than people.
While it is true that car travel initially resulted in many positive improvements in our society, those improvements are now increasingly overwhelmed by negatives, as the continued provision of infrastructure, programs and finances to promote car travel is now experiencing severely diminishing returns that started later on in the 20th Century.
When I visit emerging or even European countries, I am saddened by seeing mistakes on the ground that America has made three decades before. Why can't we learn from each other? Is it because people and cities are so giddy with new found wealth that they can't resist the temptations of over-development, sprawl, or car use? I stumbled across this blog entry that attempts to answer this question and thought I'd share. Please enjoy!
