Chris McMullen: Sam, if cars ran on carbon dioxide and emitted only oxygen, would you still be against them?
JK: Of course he would, they still enable personal mobility to live where you want to live, instead of in some crappy campaign contributor’s overpriced apartment on a toy train line, reduce the sense of community by preventing social interaction with your fellow commuters, reduce you sense of place because you get to listen to your radio instead of the conductor’s announcement of places and allow you shop at a low cost supercenter instead of the local mixed use boutique.

Further cars do not provide an excuse to shovel billions of urban renewal dollars to local developers. Cars are just bad (unless you are the elite, like several famous planners who live on farms, who will always have cars - don’t believe me look at Portland’s model, Russia. All the big wigs had cars, usually with driver like Katz.)

Thanks
JK