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SUVs: Stealing The Public Wealth

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Making Places Editor
17 March 2003 - 6:00am

David Burwell offers three principles for for developing rationality and rules in the allocation of public road space.

"No more. Since SUVs, legally classified as 'light-trucks' and therefore exempt from most regulation, have passed the 50% mark in new car sales the rest of us on the road are faced with a dilemma: arm ourselves with our own quasi-assault vehicles or get off. However, a third option has emerged—stand and fight."

Full Story: SUVs: Stealing the Public Wealth
Source: Project For Public Spaces, March 15, 2003
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