The Reason Why the Car Rules....

is that the federal government apparently thinks autos should be put ahead of everything else. Portland Transport brings us up to speed on the request by the Federal Highway Administration that Metro, Portland's regional government, put cars at the top of its RTP. This is ridiculousness. The reason why cars are at the top of the food chain is because they have been forced there over many many years. Jonathan puts it best...

When is the U.S. going to take a serious look at how misguided our blind allegiance to the automobile has been for the last hundred years? We don’t need to be anti-car, but we do need to be much more car-conscious. You’d think with our current issues of obesity, global warming, wars over oil, skyrocketing highway costs, etc… that the feds might just be a bit more open to new ideas.