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"This book proposes an honest reckoning with the subsidies and externalities of cars, but it is not anticar. Parking has made an awful mess of the American city, but drivers are not the architects of this system. In a way they are its victims. In its best moments, driving feels like freedom, but our inability to get around any other way is a kind of prison."
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— Oct 07, 2026 10:07AM
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Caroline
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" . . . to protect the parking agents, the city had turned over enforcement to the one group that was most committed to illegal parking as a status symbol and a way of life. The same organization charged with enforcing parking rules was also the one that broke those rules the most often and most openly: the NYPD."
I'd love to say I'm shocked that police officers break road laws. :|
— Oct 16, 2026 10:53AM
I'd love to say I'm shocked that police officers break road laws. :|
Caroline
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"One reason that Americans retain such nostalgia for college is that it was the only time in our lives so much was within walking distance."
Gosh, that's true. College campuses are miniature worlds. I loved being able to walk everywhere, and it is indeed one of the things I look back on fondly.
— Oct 11, 2026 11:43AM
Gosh, that's true. College campuses are miniature worlds. I loved being able to walk everywhere, and it is indeed one of the things I look back on fondly.
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Oct 07, 2026 11:31AM
I hate parallel parking 😒 rather would park in a parking garage.
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TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "I hate parallel parking 😒 rather would park in a parking garage."There are tricks so you can parallel park correctly and quickly every time, but yeah, I doubt it's anyone's preferred way to park. :/ Maryland took parallel parking off the driving test a few years ago, for some reason. I can't see how that makes sense since, you know, parallel parking hasn't suddenly disappeared. O_o
Caroline wrote: "TL *Humaning the Best She Can* wrote: "I hate parallel parking 😒 rather would park in a parking garage."There are tricks so you can parallel park correctly and quickly every time, but yeah, I dou..."
I have bad spatial awareness /depth perception, so makes it harder for me.. never could get the hang of it. If I absolutely have to , a friend tells me step by step and I manage it but 99% of the time, if there's no metered lots or parking garages, I don't go unless someone else is driving.
Heh, that is really weird.. would love to know the thought process behind that decision!
Hope you're doing okay 🫂 🤗 have my ankle surgery Monday morning, not nervous about the surgery itself.. just getting sick from the anesthesia.
Best of luck with the surgery, TL! Reward yourself afterward.