“Bike riding shouldn’t be an act of bravery, and transportation leaders should redesign their streets so that they don’t depend on armor or surrender to survive. Arguing that streets are built for cars and are too dangerous to bike on is an argument for a safety intervention to upgrade those streets”
– from Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution,
by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

All I can add to this is that right now, unironically, is quite the time to be alive, as more transportation professionals have either gotten a clue or replaced those that refused to. What this means is that stubborn, car-centric decision makers in any particular town will increasingly find themselves challenged by better leaders in nearby cities who aren’t too cowardly to install bike lanes and bus lanes, and do other radical things which begin to de-center the private automobile.


Climate Possibilities is a series about climate mitigation, along with resilience, resistance, and restoration. It’s about human habitat preservation. It’s about loving nature and planet Earth, and demanding the kind of change that gives future generations the opportunity for vibrant lives. Doomers will be eaten alive, figuratively. All photographs are taken in Hartford, Connecticut unless stated otherwise.