Car Free America?

How to think about driving less

I saw this piece the other from city planner Mark R. Brown, AICP, titled “Bike Lanes Aren’t Communist: Why Multimodal Streets Spark Insults and Culture Wars.” He promoted it on social media, where he’s fairly active, with the lead-in “multimodal streets are part of the culture war now.”

The piece is good, and he identifies a problem with online discourse that all of us urb…