Los Angeles made me proud . . .
imminent death of car-based culture July 4th, 2008
. . . to live in Tucson.
I was in L.A. the last few days in federal court and I kept a keen eye out for bicyclists while out and about.
I saw very few.
I am sure that L.A. has lots and lots of neighborhoods where the bicycle is featured more prominently than downtown, where I was, but I have to say: the automobiles dominate that place in a way that makes Tucson look like a bicycling paradise.
Let’s hope Tucson’s recent, weird, thoughtless plan to build more highways right through downtown is a brief phase that it will get over soon. Because L.A. is not a model that will survive the long, slow death of the automobile.
–Erik Ryberg