Peer-to-Peer Pioneer Sees New York Bicycles Pier-to-Pier



I am amazed every day how many forces for change in the way we live are gaining more and more traction.  Some ideas that seemed radical a few years ago, may still be on the radical side, but adoption and the process of refinement and turning  highly innovative and way ahead of the curve ideas into a form of reality.  I think Mark Gorton is an innovator worth paying some attention.  Here’s an article from WIRED.

Mark Gorton is perhaps best known for founding the peer-to-peer service LimeWire. But his real passion is transportation — specifically bicycles, and making cities friendlier to them.

Gorton believes the automobile plays an unnecessarily large role in urban transportation and says it does more harm than good. He stops short of calling for the outright eradication of cars in our cities, but wants to see policies that aggressively discourage them.

Many will consider his views radical, but his call to rethink the car’s place in our urban landscape is moving into the mainstream. A growing number of urban planners favor the “complete streets” model of multimodal transit that embraces walking, cycling and transit alongside automobiles.  Read more at http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/08/mark-gorton-qa/ .