Car-Free interview with blogger Browne Molyneux

I know many of you may have found me from Siel’s blog, but I want to link to her latest car-free interview anyway, because I loved it. So here goes:
Browne Molyneux of The Bus Bench
Browne talks about perceived links between car-freeness, social class, and race — and uncovers some of the biggest assumptions that I [...]

Car Culture, Mortgage Crisis, and Community

PBS’s NOW recently did a story on ex-burbia and car culture. You can watch it here: Driven to Despair
The show gives a good look at some of the connections between gas prices, urban sprawl, and the mortgage crisis — especially in Southern California. I was particularly interested in some of the fears middle class interviewees [...]

Beginning the car-free journey

In January of 2008, I made one of my first new year’s resolutions ever. After a string of bad luck with my aging car (including a hunk of metal just falling off and scraping along the street for a few miles), I was sick of my car. I was sick of getting it fixed, putting [...]