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Action Report

Undriver Licensing™: Creating Enthusiasm about Not Driving

“Want to get your Undriver License™?” This question usually elicits either a surprised “huh?” or a broad smile from visitors to the Undriver Licensing Station™. Wherever it goes – festivals, community events, schools, employee transportation fairs – the Undriving™ program playfully nudges people of all ages to reconsider their transportation [...]

Carfree Arts

Motor Car Madness

“The city multiplies man’s power to think, to educate, to communicate.”
Lewis Mumford 1895-1990
But most modern cities have surrendered to the car so it’s worth
remembering that he also said: “Forget the damned motor car
and build cities for lovers and friends.”

Motor Car Madness
This 8-minute film about the destructive effect of cars on cities was devised, written and [...]

Book Review

On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life

Book Review by Kelly Nelson

There is always room for a book about bicycles as transportation in North America so kudos to editor Amy Walker and publisher New World Library for putting out this book where the words lycra, competition, racing and Lance Armstrong do not appear in the index. The contributors [...]

Blog

Carless Single Mother

Going carless for me was not so much a socio-political decision as it was happenstance. The transmission in my beloved 1996 Toyota Camry couldn’t take it anymore and keeled over. I had very recently become a single mother; my son at the time was just a little over a year old. [...]