“If someone hit her with his fists, he would get arrested,” Allen said. “But he hit her with a car, so he just gets a ticket and can walk away.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/17/dc-child-struck-driver-tickets/

"Over a 15-year period, 6,253 cars crashed into 7-Eleven storefronts in the U.S. – an average of 1.14 per day." https://www.dailynews.com/2023/02/08/one-mans-case-reveals-cars-slam-into-storefronts-like-7-eleven-with-alarming-frequency/

For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles. https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/08/31/americans-love-affair-with-big-cars-is-killing-them

“You don’t have to be on a bike to appreciate a bike-friendly city. Streets teeming with bicycles are much, much quieter than streets crammed with cars.” [gift link]

Parisians Are Choosing Bikes Over Cars. Will New Yorkers Do That, Too? (Published 2024)

The transformation of cycling access in Paris over the past few years may have lessons for New York and its car-clogged streets.

Car traffic is a DDoS attack on cities.

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

Bloomberg.com

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to talk more about the other big ben...