For 75 years in the United States the highways have been built to benefit the auto, trucking, construction, and real estate sectors. There succeeded in turning highways into freeways where bicyclists could be removed. They provides public parking space on streets for private companies to have their customers and employees park at taxpayer expense. More than half the land area of an American city is devoted 100% for use by automobile owners. Privatizing the public commons has been taking place for centuries and this is but one manifestation of how it plays out.
Roads are not safe for children to walk or bicycle to school in my state of California and 99% of the children are taken by buses or cars to and from school. It took one generation to force people into owning and maintaining automobiles with taxpayer moneys used to pave the way.
Want to save money and reduce greenhouse gases by 50% cut back on the consumption of meat and dairy. It is a painless zero investment way to reduce your carbon footprint.
Roads are not safe for children to walk or bicycle to school in my state of California and 99% of the children are taken by buses or cars to and from school. It took one generation to force people into owning and maintaining automobiles with taxpayer moneys used to pave the way.
Want to save money and reduce greenhouse gases by 50% cut back on the consumption of meat and dairy. It is a painless zero investment way to reduce your carbon footprint.
