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# Biking is the answer
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/biking-is-the-answer-editor/
- Published: 2008-09-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:05:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Andrew Kay Liberman Santa Monica*

A great solution for Santa Monica’s auto parking problem, (“Drivers pay high price for parking,” page 1, Sept. 24), is to pick up the bicycle and help turn our city into a bicycling capitol.

“The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.” — James Marston Fitch, NY Times, May 1, l960.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 25, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092508.pdf?ref=smdp.com)