You’d think that creativity would be easier in a smaller city, but of course here in New Albany, drivers are ready to self-immolate at the creation of street bump-outs having the effect of reducing their average speed by 5 mph — that’s when they’re not speeding through the parking lane.
Perhaps it’s not a question of size, but one of political and governmental courage. In that equation, we occupy our properly Lilliputian cosmic scale.
Car-saturated Mexico City lets bicycle riders rule the roads on Sunday mornings, by William Booth (Washington Post)
MEXICO CITY — Hey, honey, let’s go bicycling with the kids through downtown Mexico City! Just a few years ago, these would have been the words of a lone madman.
