Apparently, it would look just like this. Tom Baker (via NotCot) has produced a stunning set of photographs of a car-free Los Angeles. It’s a tough concept to imagine, but it sure is a beautiful one to behold. Photoshopped or not, these images fill me with a bizarrely wonderful feeling. Though they do make me realize just how much asphalt there is in this city.

Thanks, Amrit.

Blockade Parade

How closing streets can actually reduce traffic

As the city of Vancouver prepared to convert a car lane on the busy Burrard Bridge into a bike path last summer, some imagined impending anarchy. At the time, one cabbie, Jatinder Nijjar, predicted, “It is going to be chaos.” In fact, the trial—and the traffic—has run smoothly so far.

Nijjar might have had different expectations had he read “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks,” a paper published in…

This article was previously published in the Boston Globe by David Filipov.

Boston has launched a high-profile campaign to become a friendlier city for cyclists. Now the question is whether bicyclists will become friendlier to Boston.

On any hour of any day, Boston bicyclists routinely run red lights, ride the wrong way on one-way streets, zip along sidewalks, and cut off pedestrians crossing streets legally – even though bike riders are supposed to obey the same traffic laws…

It is certain that the population of LA is increasing. Lets assume that the population of LA is supposed to double in the next 50 years what will our streets look like?

Take Santa Monica/ West LA for instance.  On an average day there are 300,000 commuters going to and from this part of the city of angels. If our population increases so dramatically how will LA accommodate the growth? Our streets will change but…

People living on Skid Row have often severed their earthly relationships. Union Rescue Mission’s Orlando Ward and Skid Row preacher Pastor Jeffery Thomas try to connect Skid Row’s residents with God. An original GOOD Video series. Part 4 of 5.

In the shadow of Los Angeles’s glimmering financial district skyscrapers, Skid Row is “like Vegas for junkies.” Choc Nitty started selling crack when he was 12. He’s turned back from that dead end but the roots of Skid Row’s drug problem run deep. An original GOOD Video series. Part 3 of 5.

Franklin Arburtha carries the mantle of disenfranchised youth on Skid Row. But the deck is stacked against anyone who’s lived here—especially the children. An original GOOD Video series. Part 2 of 5.

Los Angeles’s police chief called Skid Row “the worst social disaster in America.” It’s a frightening sight from a moving car. Sam Slovick hits the streets instead. An original GOOD Video series. Part 1 of 5.

Apparently, it would look just like this. Tom Baker (via NotCot) has produced a stunning set of photographs of a car-free Los Angeles. It’s a tough concept to imagine, but it sure is a beautiful one to behold. Photoshopped or not, these images fill me with a bizarrely wonderful feeling. Though they do make me realize just how much asphalt there is in this city.

Thanks, Amrit.

This article was previously published in the Boston Globe by David Filipov.

Boston has launched a high-profile campaign to become a friendlier city for cyclists. Now the question is whether bicyclists will become friendlier to Boston.

On any hour of any day, Boston bicyclists routinely run red lights, ride the wrong way on one-way streets, zip along sidewalks, and cut off pedestrians crossing streets legally – even though bike riders are supposed to obey the same traffic laws…

It is certain that the population of LA is increasing. Lets assume that the population of LA is supposed to double in the next 50 years what will our streets look like?

Take Santa Monica/ West LA for instance.  On an average day there are 300,000 commuters going to and from this part of the city of angels. If our population increases so dramatically how will LA accommodate the growth? Our streets will change but…

Blockade Parade

How closing streets can actually reduce traffic

As the city of Vancouver prepared to convert a car lane on the busy Burrard Bridge into a bike path last summer, some imagined impending anarchy. At the time, one cabbie, Jatinder Nijjar, predicted, “It is going to be chaos.” In fact, the trial—and the traffic—has run smoothly so far.

Nijjar might have had different expectations had he read “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks,” a paper published in…

People living on Skid Row have often severed their earthly relationships. Union Rescue Mission’s Orlando Ward and Skid Row preacher Pastor Jeffery Thomas try to connect Skid Row’s residents with God. An original GOOD Video series. Part 4 of 5.

In the shadow of Los Angeles’s glimmering financial district skyscrapers, Skid Row is “like Vegas for junkies.” Choc Nitty started selling crack when he was 12. He’s turned back from that dead end but the roots of Skid Row’s drug problem run deep. An original GOOD Video series. Part 3 of 5.

Franklin Arburtha carries the mantle of disenfranchised youth on Skid Row. But the deck is stacked against anyone who’s lived here—especially the children. An original GOOD Video series. Part 2 of 5.

Los Angeles’s police chief called Skid Row “the worst social disaster in America.” It’s a frightening sight from a moving car. Sam Slovick hits the streets instead. An original GOOD Video series. Part 1 of 5.