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Better walking, biking, and transit

Elon Musk could reduce the cost of tunneling for subway systems. The only problem? Hes not interested, Economist writer Daniel Knowles told Insider.

May 06, 2023 // Urbanization has meant more reliance on cars and urban landscapes reflect this reliance. Daniel Knowles' recently published "Carmageddon" argues urban residents should recapture control of urban planning to make cities more people friendly, but misses some important points, writes Joshua Huminski.

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Better walking, biking, and transit

In this week’s round-up of news from around the country: urban populations rebound; traffic violance disproportionately impacts Black and Latino communities; why US developers don’t build more large apartments; and more.

In an excerpt from ‘Carmageddon,’ Daniel Knowles explores why adding more roads almost never fixes congestion. The morning of December 15, 1973, was not an…

Why is it so difficult to rein in car culture?

Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.

In “Carmageddon,” Daniel Knowles outlines the rise of the automobile and the costs we all bear as a result. Knowles traces the forces and decisions that normalized cars and cemented our reliance on them. He takes readers around the world to show the ways car use has impacted people’s lives—from Nairobi, where few people own a car but the city is still cloaked in smog, to Hou