No great city has an abundance of parking.

In a country where you can get to the moon, God help you if you want to cross the street.

The typical U.S. resident walked three miles a day a century ago; today the average is less than a quarter mile.

The car is “a system of human dissociation.‟ Behind the wheel of their private mobile spaces, drivers are far less likely to mix and mingle than pedestrians. By isolating drivers from fellow human beings, driving can engender hostility and mistrust. Pedestrians, cyclists and public transit riders are forced into a greater awareness of their environment and as a result are more likely to concern themselves with its wellbeing.

Urban planners and politicians encounter less political opposition when building highways in marginalized, vulnerable communities.