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.