Indeed very interesting. But what solution are you suggesting?--that
the poor buy bicycles? Certainly you know the problems with more
subsidized buses, light rail, or regular trains. The decisions for
personal transit called the automobile have shaped where people live
and where employment is located and all our lives for one hundred years
now. Just what are you suggesting these politicians should subsidize
or change? Even in cities like Chicago, the factories are no longer
in the neighborhoods where you could run buses--if there were factories
which have not been outlawed due to pollution or work conditions not up
to some code. Just what is the solution? And what does it have to do
with bikes?
Mitchell Nussbaum wrote:
| That's very interesting information. Could you please
post the link to the interview or article?
Thanks,
Genie Ogden
--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Mark Evans <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Mark Evans <[email protected]>
Subject: [Bikies] Transportation As Social Justice Issue
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 3:38 PM
Here is an excellent
article/interview with Angela Glover Blackwell regarding this same
issue.
Note about a third of the way down where she points out:
"...the bottom fifth of the nation, the
poorest fifth of Americans, spend 42 percent of their annual
household budget on an automobile budget, more than twice the
national average. So for people who are poor, owning an automobile is a
burdensome thing.
Nearly
25 percent of African-Americans do not have access to a car, compared
that with 7 percent of non-Hispanic whites. You have nearly the same
number of Latinos who do not have access to a car. So this is huge,
this is not an isolated problem. For people who are spending too much
of their income -- over 40 percent just to own a car -- clearly this
has a devastating impact on the economy in terms of all of the things
that people cannot do and cannot participate in."
I
think I posted this on Paul Ryan's page. I should post it to Scott
Walker too. I wrote him a letter over the weekend... but hey, we love
letters, lots and lots of letters so I'll send another.
Mark
Evans
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