Autos in the city

There are some good comments in the entry about the article from the New York Times about building condominiums in cities and not providing parking, which is something that I recommend when constructing infill housing on WMATA sites in DC and in close-in sites in the suburbs.

Obviously, I am caught by the fact that you see so many SUVs parked on neighborhood streets in DC--with DC license plates!

The fact is such vehicles are out of kilter. Using the "transect" of appropriate development type from New Urbanism, an SUV in a city is a transect violator.

I am also a big reader of the comics. Some good comic strips, including Lucky Cow by Mark Pett, are not carried by the Washington Post. So I get this by email. This is today's strip.


Comic strip © 2006 by Mark Pett.

AP photo by Mark Lennihan, in Brooklyn.

If you don't get the picture... maybe since we've changed the textbooks for learning how to read in the schools, people no longer understand.


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