The Death of a Car City

I recently attended a few public engagement workshops around the new draft strategies for the upcoming Transportation Master Plan 2050. Given the contents of those proposed strategies, and the recent comments by a city councilor that we are a car city, and always will be, I thought it important to say something. Some of you will be familiar with all of this already, so if that’s you, please bear with me.

For the rest of you, I’m very sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the dream of being a car city forever, is dead. There is nowhere near enough money, and there never will be.

(Downer, I know.)

I know many of you will roll your eyes at that statement, and scoff at the very idea that there isn’t enough money.

Well congratulations, you’ve taken the first step toward healing after a major loss! You’ve been told the news of the death of your impossible dream, and you are now facing the first of the five stages of grief: denial.