Cars make us lonely

The illustration below explains quite brilliantly how much public space we’ve surrendered to cars.

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Drawing by Swedish artist Karl Jilg, commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration.

And that’s a problem, as traffic impacts our social interactions: you make less friends in your direct environment on streets with heavy traffic.

Time to decrease traffic on our neighborhood streets.

“Cars make us lonely.”
— Donald Appleyard (paraphrasing “Livable Streets,” 1981)

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