> Ask any recently-turned 16-year-old what it's like actually being able to go places. ... That's a sentiment born of the suburban age. Cars are freedom from s

> Ask any recently-turned 16-year-old what it's like actually being able to go places. ... That's a sentiment born of the suburban age. Cars are freedom from suburban isolation. In places where you can get around using your own two feet, cars offer only a marginal sort of liberation, and one that's bound up with all sorts of dangers and obligations. Cars are the sine qua non of suburbia. The problem is that they are also the non cum qua of cities—cars destroy cities.