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their true costs. 2. Foster genuine competition between different modes of transportation. 3. Emphasize sensible land use over actual physical mobility—a symptom of being in the wrong place.

Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

For every extra 5 minutes Atlanta residents drive each day, they are 3% more likely to be obese.

Devon Zuegel • We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars

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Regen Melbourne - Embracing Doughnut Economics to create a new compass for Melbourne

The report outlines a regenerative vision for Melbourne using Doughnut Economics, emphasizing community engagement and collaboration to address social inequality, ecological challenges, and economic opportunities post-COVID-19.

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With an insight still rare among government officials in 1960, the Governor had seen that if congestion was ever to be eased in and around urban areas, the emphasis on building more and more highways must be replaced by a balanced transportation system—in which emphasis must be shifted, gradually but steadily, to mass transportation.

Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker

With auto-based infrastructure needing dramatically more money than is currently available just to maintain what we’ve already built, urban transportation advocates are forced to support lots of additional revenue for roads to get tepid support for walking, biking and transit funding.

Charles Marohn • A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy

Modern development, where the public sector leads and everything is built to a finished state, is a bad party. When someone buys that new house on the cul-de-sac, they don’t want more development around them. To the contrary; new development merely means more traffic, more people using the park, more taxes.

Charles L. Marohn • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

For decades, the automobile provided a pathway to economic opportunity and upward mobility. But now the negative consequences — including a reliance on fossil fuels and increased emissions of greenhouse gases; a dramatic increase in the rate of deaths caused by cars[x]; the disconnection of local community and weakening of local economies; the rise... See more

Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport. Enrique Peñalosa