Everybody going faster than you is a maniac and everybody going slower than you is an idiot: George Carlin We … More
Category: Life in autoAmerica
Blogs about surviving and taking back the streets in the autoAmerican age.
Life is cheap in autoAmerica
Want to know what a human life is worth in autoAmerica these days? Three years ago, Clarence Barton III was … More
Just another day in autoAmerican GNV
Funny thing happened to me while I was cycling west on SW 8th Avenue on my way to a movie. … More
In which I finally find myself fallen into good company
To the sea, son, to the sea. Every bit of water you ever seen on land is going – or … More
Where the art meets the asphalt
Cities coast-to-coast are increasingly turning to arts-driven street redesigns—think colorful crosswalks, intersection murals and painted pedestrian plazas—to quickly improve city … More
Death by design in autoAmerica
How to explain the inexplicable death of Sabrina Obando? The 22-year-old UF grad from Miami was crossing NW 8th Avenue … More
Another traffic death
A spray of dead flowers propped on a concrete pole was a sad reminder that something terrible had happened at … More
Dereliction of duty.
Gainesville adopted its first speed limit in 1882 – 10 mph – to crack down on fast horses and daring … More
Let’s make 8th Avenue a complete street
A spray of dead flowers propped on a concrete pole was a sad reminder that something terrible had happened at … More
Technology on speed
Daddy said son Your gonna drive me to drinkin’ If you don’t stop dragging That hot rod Lincoln Charlie Ryan, … More
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