Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for
most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in
him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man,
however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one
thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute
selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It
will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end
of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living
happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the
true cost of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false
opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerates
of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a
tyrant.
| R.A. Lafferty, Writer |
Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater; and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
| Art Buchwald, Journalist |
What we need is balance. Streets are not just arteries for the movement of cars; they are part of a network of spaces in the public domain that serve
as access to the properties in the private domain and that also
serve social, economic and political functions.
| Wade Eide, Architect |
| Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago |
...The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
| Marshall McLuhan, Philosopher |
Even the more conservative estimate of the world's yearly crash fatalities
works out to a death rate roughly equivalent to five jumbo jet crashes
every day. If 500,000 people per year worldwide died in airplane crashes or,
if 500,000 people per year worldwide died in train wrecks, we'd very likely
have major investigations of these incidents and possibly even abandon the
technologies as unsafe.
| Katie Alvord, Author of "Divorce Your Car" |
Only in a pseudo-community does each house need massive amounts of parking plus a
yard to accommodate what real communities provide collectively in parks or
on the street.
| Chris Bradshaw |
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
| Gandhi |
