Tag: los angeles
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On walking and biking justice in America
In the wake of the weekend’s not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, my mother called me from St. Louis completely outraged. She was certain that there must be some kind of law against following a person who was just walking down the street, getting into an altercation with them, and then shooting them.…
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What LA’s ‘Carmageddon’ can teach us all
There are many lessons to learn from this weekend’s closure of I-405 in Los Angeles. Perhaps our cities are not as dependent of freeways as we thought. Perhaps bicycling really is a viable (and fun!) means of transportation in our cities. Maybe our tendency to go into a collective hysteria over changes to our roadways…
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