[thingie]

Now, perhaps, if there were cities that were not raped for the automobile. I don't know any. Looted by insatiable suburbian parking needs, there is two meter wide sidewalk in the street where I live, yet barely a single person can pass, the rest is for parking. I just can't get anywhere out of the town. Because there is no end to it. And if it was, it'd be beyond a freeway that I can't cross safely.

(And I live in Europe. It's that bad here too. Really.)

[regularfry]

Oxford is going the other way. The last few councils have taken it upon themselves to make the city centre more painful for cars, and generally better for bikes and pedestrians.