All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us

By popular demand -- a comprehensive review of all the ways car dependency destroys our communities, our health, and our planet. With gratuitous commentary by your host!
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The basis for this video is this paper:
Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
Authors: Patrick Miner, Barbara M. Smith, Anant Jani, Geraldine McNeill, Alfred Gathorne-Hardy
Publication: Journal of Transport Geography
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: February 2024
Available on the web under a Creative Commons license! Link here: www.sciencedir...
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Nonprofit advocacy groups mentioned in this video -- these are ones I'm familiar with in cities I've visited in the past couple years, but organizations like this are easy to Google!
parkingreform....
www.bikehousto...
www.theurbanis...
parkingreform....
walkbiketampa....
yimbystpete.org/
www.sustaincha...
www.ourstreets...
streets.mn/
transalt.org/?...
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Other Resources:
"Racial bias in driver yielding behavior at crosswalks" by Goddard, Kahn, Adkins: www.sciencedir...
injuryfacts.ns...
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Images
Ram 3500 By Kevauto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
London cordon zone by Flickr user R4vi www.flickr.com...
creativecommon...
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