How the Car Keeps Americans Apart

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How the Car Keeps Americans Apart

"Urbanists have long looked at cars as the scourge of great places. Jane Jacobs identified the automobile as the β€œchief destroyer of American communities.” Cars not only clog our roads and cost billions of dollars in time wasted commuting, they are a terrible killer. They caused more than 40,000 deaths in 2017, including of some 6,000 pedestrians and cyclists."

"But in the United States, the car plays a fundamental role in structuring the economy, our daily lives, and the political and social differences that separate us."

WorldҀ™s Largest Nipper Statue Ҁ“ Menands, New York – Atlas Obscura

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WorldҀ™s Largest Nipper Statue Ҁ“ Menands, New York
– Atlas Obscura

"According to the Albany Institute of History and Art, Nipper came to be perched atop the crenellated parapet in 1958 following renovation of the dilapidated concrete warehouse for use by RTA Corporation, an appliance distributor specializing in products by RCA. The statue was made in Chicago, shipped in five sections by rail, and attached to a metal frame on the roof with the aid of a 10-story crane."

"Nipper is the largest of the four monumental terriers that once sat atop RTA’s distribution centers, and he’s the last dog to still exist on the building upon which he was originally installed. There were once enormous Nippers peering over the skylines of Chicago and Los Angeles, but those have since been demolished or removed. "

Next Week in the Finger Lakes

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Within a week from now I will be in the Finger Lakes.πŸ• I am leaving on Friday and camping up at the National Forest, probably visiting the various gorge state parks every day for most of the week. It should be a nice week. If it’s nice, I might end up finishing my week up in Pennsylvania, maybe visiting the National Forest and Allegany State Park.🏞 It might be fun also to visit the Potter County Fair and also the state park with the railroad tracks crossing the gorge.🎑

I continue to be bit concerned about the weather,🌧 but it’s hard to know what the forecast will look like two months out from when you reserve your vacation. I’m hoping it will be nicer then last year, which was so wet, and even when it wasn’t wet, it was cloudy. But I made the best of it, regardless of the conditions.

Regardless of the weather or what happens, it’s still good to get away from it for a few days.😎