HIGHWAY ROBBERY

Why It's Important

→ How Car Ownership Keeps Americans From Financial Stability → The Hidden Inequity of Car-Based Design → Americans Spend $470K on Cars Over Lifetime → Economic Benefits of Reducing Car Dependence → How Extreme Dar Dependency Is Driving Americans to Unhappiness → The 100-Year Road to Car Dependency in the US

Detroit History

→ Detroit's Streetcars: Past and Present → How Freeways Destroyed Black Bottom and Paradise Valley → Why Detroit Has America's Highest Car Insurance Rates → How Metro Detroit Transit Went From Best to Worst → Detroit: The Rise and Fall of a Public Transit System → A Concise History of Detroit Public Transit → SEGREGATION BY DESIGN DETROIT: TRANSIT → The Amtrak Wolverine (Detroit-Chicago Rail)

New York City History

→ NYC Rent Control History → Robert Moses and Jones Beach → The Destruction of Penn Station → The 1965 NYC Blackout → The 1977 NYC Blackout → The 1980 Transit Strike → NYC's 1975 Fiscal Crisis → The Subway Crisis of the 1980s → How NYC Became Safe in the 1990s → 50 Years of NYC Rent vs Income → Hurricane Sandy and Subway Flooding → NYC Congestion Pricing Explained

Los Angeles History

→ The Pacific Electric Red Cars → Disneyland's Grand Opening (1955) → The 1959 World Series → The Great Red Car Conspiracy → Did GM Kill LA's Streetcars? → The 1965 Watts Rebellion → LA's Smog Crisis (1970s-80s) → The 1984 LA Olympics → The Blue Line Opens (1990) → The 1994 Northridge Earthquake → In-N-Out and Car Culture → Carmageddon (2011) → Brightline West: LA to Vegas High-Speed Rail → Inglewood Proposes $1.4-billion Fix for SoFi's Traffic Woes → The K Line Opens (2024) → COVID Cleared LA's Air Temporarily → LA Has America's Worst Traffic

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Car dependency was designed by policy. Policy can be redesigned by people like you.

→ Yale Climate Connections → US Department of Transportation → Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure → The 1973 Oil Embargo → Reagan's 1986 Transit Funding Cuts → The 1996 Atlanta Olympics Transportation Disaster