How is it that driving is viewed as a symbol of freedom and independence, and walking as dependence, when it’s literally the opposite?

When you drive, you depend on the infrastructure supporting it (roads, parking lots, traffic lights, snow clearing, gas stations, car purchase & maintenance & insurance & gas,…). When you walk, it’s just you and your feet, taking you in any direction you want.

#Urbanism #VisionZero #WalkableStreets #WalkableCities #PedestrianSafety #CarDependency #TheWarOnCars 

 @223cead5 at the risk of answering a rhetorical question: decades of petrocapitalist propaganda and marketing to sell cars and gasoline 

 @223cead5 Because walking is free. As one local anti-bike, freedom-loving politician so eloquently put it, "The cars are where the money's at".

True Freedom in North America means great dependency on Capitalism.