All of my life I've tend to hyper fixate on things and fall out of it sooner or later, but one passion that stuck with me is the world of car culture. When I was a kid I used to watch Top Gear and play Need for Speed games and I still do to this day just replace Top Gear with The Grand Tour. I started my college career at what was know as IUPUI, which is now IU Indianapolis and PU Indianapolis respectfully, for a degree in motorsports engineering and while my time there I started to notice something about our car centric infrastructure that makes driving less fun. This extends to places outside of cities too; it just I lacked the understanding of why I was feeling these things in the first place. It wasn't until I recently took a sustainability class for my senior standing at IU South Bend is where I truly start to understand why our centric car infrastructure suck and it not only makes pedestrian life worse, but also makes driving less fun. I'm always drawn to this Strong Towns article on why car design have made pedestrian life more dangerous and how it effects us as the driver of which you can find here. The goal of this blog is to help radicalize car enthusiast to the ideas of proper urban planning and how it can benefit them too, so that everyone can be happy because the only way to break away from car dependency is to have viable alternatives.
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