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Posts published in “2008 April”

Just say No to driving for every little thing

Essay by Alan Kesselheim

Transportation – May 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine

I ‘VE BEEN MARKING DAYS off the calendar with a black X, like a prisoner might in a jail cell. Only I’m not counting down a sentence, I’m celebrating days of liberation. Liberation from the alarming gas pump, from town traffic, from sedentary, bad-posture travel. X marks the days I don’t drive at all. Days I never turn the car key in the ignition.