Our streets used to be different...

Great short audio piece on how our streets used to have a far different culture 90 years ago, and how a cabal of auto interests changed it using, among other tactics, slurs and insults against pedestrians and children:

http://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-76-the-modern-moloch

(click the orange play arrow on very top left)

This is a great radio series on city infrastructure, by the way...

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on April 4, 2013 at 4:25am

Motordumb...

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on April 4, 2013 at 5:17am

Streets in cities were never really safe places to be wandering around. Even Teddy Roosevelt's Presidential carriage was hit by a trolley back in the day.

Given the lack of paved roads or cobblestones with rails in them (and ruts along Chicago's vast cable car network) I really am glad to be biking now than in the early 20th century.