The Don Quixote Syndrome
On Being an Advocate for Public Transit When the Public Realm Is Disintegrating
My book Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile was published over a decade ago. At the time, I was optimistic about the future of transit in North America. Gas prices were running high, as was concern over global warming (which was then also known as “climate change,” as opposed to global heating and the climate crisis).
There …
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