Yesterday Green LA Girl ran a Q & A with me as part of its weekly series about car-free female bloggers in Los Angeles. It's a great series and I encourage you all to check out the other entries as well:
Kenya
Kristina
Browne
Kathryn
Enci
Paula
It's noteworthy that all of these females (including me) do not have children. Unfortunately this is not representative of a sizable segment of transit riders in L.A. -- the mothers who rely on Metro to get their children around. A few posters have noted this; I hope we get to hear from the car-free parents out there soon. Another thing I've noticed: the overwhelming number of bicyclists in the series. I'm not one. I support riders' rights and want cities and suburbs to plan for bikes in their circulation elements, but I occasionally worry that the alternative transportation community is too bike-centrist in its collective voice and its commentary. Not everyone who's car-free is a rogue culture-jammer on a fixie. (To be fair, not every cyclist is one, either.)
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