Packing the pavement

Photographs from Tampa, from a City of Denver planning document. Image scanned by Dan Malouff.

The reason why reducing single occupancy vehicle trips (and to an extent, personally driven automobiles) needs to be the primary objective of transportation policy:

1. Different modes take up vastly different amounts of space;
2. It is not possible to move increasing numbers of people via incredibly inefficient transportation modes.

It doesn't matter how many op-eds are produced by the Reason Foundation and other pro-automobile pro-sprawl organizations. It's a matter of the simplest arithmetic. Basic addition.
General Electric Streetcar ad from the early 1940s.

Index Keywords: mobility; car-culture; transit