I am not anti-car, I am anti car culture. Anti super cars speeding on the sea-2-sky, people not looking for pedestrians at intersections, cars first culture. I want cars to better serve the people that need them most (accessibility, careers, cost related sprawl).

I wish every mode got everyone to where they needed to go at about the same rate. That transit was fast and frequent to get you to a destination in the same time as vehicles. That a bike was a safe way to travel that same route in about the same time.

That accessibility was actually designed into how cars are in the urban fabric. Safe drop offs that don’t involves curbs or bike lands in the way. Actually spacious and convenient parking spaces.

But wanting all this, it’s impossible not to also get outraged at luxury cars driving recklessly (likely) and people running over teenagers and not calling ambulances, those things being considered acceptable because it was an ‘accident’.

And I try to always recognize in my tweets that when I am angry at cars, I still very much see the value of cars and want to increase the ease of the ways they provide value while decreasing needless death, noise, congestion. But sometimes I’m just very very angry at them.