A ban on autos? Major cities consider going carless

Cnbc ^ | Sunday, 26 Jan 2014 | Paul A Eisenstein

[MortMan]

A very unhelpful excerpt.

It might be nice to have the city/cities identified.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Powers That Be continue their war against human liberty and choice.

The War Against the Car (against drivers, really).

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is the Left's Holy Grail. They despise the automobile because it means freedom.

Guess I'll be taking my dirt bike to work in -6 degree weather tomorrow.

[all the best]

No problem. After the government destroys the economy, nobody will be able to afford cars. Except for party bosses and commisars.

[plainshame]

Ban government not autos!

[Steely Tom]

They’re talking about Germany and the UK, as far as I could see.

[lentulusgracchus]

FYI, urban planners <sic> and the architectural crowd (remember, many of the Bauhaus people were Socialists) have hated cars with a purple passion for at least 50 years ..... I picked up an urban-planning magazine out of curiosity in 1964, and I was surprised by the venomousness about "strip" development and the ubiquity of cars and arrangments for their parking and storage.

Those people institutionally and intestinally hate automobiles ..... and, I gradually figured out, they hate the freedom and mobility that cars afford people, to escape the little cages the Bauhouse boys would have us living in, like the 500-to-700-square-foot rat cages LeCorbusier was designing for French peasants back in the 20's. How good of them to think of us.....

[shineon]

Let’s just start with government autos.

[lentulusgracchus]

Guess I'll be taking my dirt bike to work in -6 degree weather tomorrow.

What, and pollute the pristine atmosphere? Baby killer!! Take the train, be redeemed!

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[ROCKLOBSTER]

Major cities consider going carless

Sounds OK to me.

I can't foresee any possible need to go into one of those filthy cesspools, ever again in my life.

[Huskrrrr]

Fine, more gas for me and my gas guzzler.

[bgill]

Germany is half the size of Texas with 5 times as many people and a good public transportation system. Austin, TX, treehugger headquarters, can’t get people to ride the new $$$$$ rail transportation. What might work in Hamburg ain’t no way gonna work in Texas.

[Publius]

When William F. Buckley ran for Mayor of New York in 1965, this was one of his suggestions for Manhattan.

[benewton]

My first car was a ‘68 VW bus, bought while I was playing Army in Germany.

You can keep the trains, there or here.

[PapaNew]

Going green." Is that anything like "Soylent Green"? Words like "green" and especially "sustainable" (Agenda 21 anyone?) will become used more and more by both do-gooders and power hungry tyrants to try to force more government controls and less freedom here and around the world.

Of course, God made the earth utterly "sustainable" and man occupies a very small faction of the planet. "Sustainability" is a myth but no matter - it will be driven into the psyche of people the way "discrimination" has - all to weaken people's resolve to keep their individual freedom.

[BunnySlippers]

The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

ROFL

[Veggie Todd]

The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.

Gees, no need to repeat yourself.

[Iron Munro]

No personal transportation - Makes it easier to keep the indentured servants on the plantation and under control.