It's Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars

Good to see this being written in the USA: "'You have to have a place to park at home, a place to park at work, and a place to park at retail establishments.' In an absurd 'market distortion,' cities have become places where 'cars have a right to housing and people don't.'"
Hmmm; it Britain too.
It's Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars | Autopia from Wired.com:

more environmentally aware UK

Since I remember the 80's and how low down in people's consciousness was the environment, this actually looks like good-ish news:

While 29% of people said they were already making an effort to use their cars and fly less, up to a third said they "don't really want to" make such changes.
Over half said they would like to reduce their car use but found there were no practical alternatives.

On the latter point, we will have to acknowledge that a big part of the problem is that over two generations we've been making individual/collective decisions predicated on car ownership. Those decisions have change the shape of our towns and cities many of them reinforcing car use by making it harder not to have a car. To reverse all those policy and infrastructure matters is not going to be the work of one day. Practical alternatives will have to be offered, encouraged and cajoled out of us. Money has been talking very loudly in the way that things have been developing; it will have to be made to change its message.