The car demands of those without a car that they behave according to the rules of its existence. – Wolfgang Sachs

Energy and Equity – Ivan Illich Past a certain threshold of energy consumption, the transportation industry dictates the configuration of social space. Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. Unchecked speed is expensive, and progressively fewer can afford it. Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink.

[The bicycle] creates only those demands which it can also satisfy. Every increase in motorized speed creates new demands on space and time. The use of the bicycle is self-limiting. – Illich, Energy & Equity

Ecology as Politics – Andre Gorz Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.

It is absurd to describe a plan that would massively redistribute resources from drivers, who have a higher average income, to transit riders, many of whom who have very low incomes, as regressive. "Equity" cannot be defined as everyone having a chance to engage in behavior that has inherently inequitable impacts. – Amy Traub, Drum Major Institute

We seek an environment in which mobility and community are no longer in conflict, in which they actually enhance and serve one another. – George Bliss