Pacto Ecosocial del Sur

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx
Published 4 Jul 2022

In the United States, the Green New Deal galvanized climate activists to fight for an ambitious program to address the climate crisis, while empowering them to collectively imagine what an equitable and sustainable future should look like. That challenge was taken up around the world under the Green New Deal banner, but also by activists with Extinction Rebellion, School Strike for Climate, and regional initiatives like the Pacto Ecosocial del Sur in Latin America. Meanwhile, at sites of extraction, residents are wielding their power to protect their communities and change national policy. In the Global North, Indigenous communities have been engaged in increasingly high-profile fights against extraction projects, and they are not alone.

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See Interstate Highway System Highway Trust Fund, 25 Hill, Steve, 148 Horan, Hubert, 102, 106, 107 horsedrawn carriages, 15–6 The Horseless Age (magazine), 66 housing prices, 128 Humphreys & Partners, 154–5 Hyperloop, 143, 155, 219, 225 IBM, 50 An Inconvenient Truth (documentary), 68–9 individualized transport, Musk on, 188 Infinite Detail (Maughan), 129 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021), 127 Instacart, 111 Instagram, 61–2 Intel, 40 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (1991), 119 International Energy Agency, 74–5 International Rights Advocates, 72 internet origins of, 50 privatization of infrastructure of, 55–6 “internet of landlords,” 197–8 Interstate Highway System about, 24, 46, 140, 221 controlled access highways (freeways/motorways), 21–2 development of streets, 11–2 double-decker highways, 151 in Los Angeles, 140–1 in Paris, 210–1 reconceptualization of, 23 slowdown of highway construction boom, 26 traffic and, 142–4 Isaac, Mike, 110 Jacobs, Jane, 230, 232 as campaign leader against urban renewal, 26 The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 26–7 Japan, innovation in, 45 Jarvis, Charlie, 193 jaywalkers, 124–7, 215–6 Jennings, Lois, 42 jitneys, 89–91, 92, 108–9 Jobs, Steve, 36–7, 42, 44 Jump, 166–8 Kalanick, Travis, 5, 92–4, 97, 105, 113, 116 Kamoto Copper Company, 73 Kara, Siddharth, 73 Katy Freeway, 140 Kelly, Kevin, 53 Kenney, Martin, 182 Khosrowshahi, Dara, 133–4 Kirsch, David, 65, 66, 71, 86 Krafcik, John, 138 Kroger, 172–3 Labour Party, 209 Labrador, Canada, 80 Laceese, Francis, 80 Latin America bike lanes in, 171 Pacto Ecosocial del Sur, 225 rapid transit systems in, 215 leasing model, for taxi drivers, 101–3 Le Guin, Ursula K. on carrier bag theory of fiction, 206–7 on Omelas, 226–7 on technology and hi tech, 224–5 Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, 202 Levandowski, Anthony, 120–2 Levinson, Herbert, 12 Levitz, Eric, 181, 182–3 Light, Jennifer, 56–7 Lime, 168–9 lithium, 75–6, 78, 79, 80, 81, 226 Loop (Boring Company), 146–51 Los Angeles, CA auto dominance in, 212 Bird in, 169 freeway plan, 22 housing prices in, 212–3 Interstate Highway System in, 140–1 jitneys in, 89–91 ride-hailing services in, 99 Louisville, Kentucky, Bird in, 169 Lower Manhattan Expressway, 26 Lutz, Bob, 70 Lycos, 55 Lyft, 99–100, 101, 104–5, 111, 168–9, 191, 229 Maersk, 49, 129 Marble, 172, 173 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 39 Maughan, Tim, 48, 49–50, 222–3 Infinite Detail, 129 Mazzucato, Mariana, 55 Measure M, 212 Mercedes-Benz, 78 micromobility services, 166–7, 169–70, 171–2, 177–9 Microsoft, 52, 72 military networks, 50 military spending, 38–9, 45–6, 119–20 mining industry about, 72–7, 79 in Australia, 75–6, 80 domestic supplies of minerals, 80–1 mobility, disruption of, by automobiles, 9–35 Model Lab, 230 Monbiot, George, 221–2 Morales, Evo, 76 Morozov, Evgeny, 59 mortgage insurance, 28–9 Moses, Robert, 26, 46 Mosseri, Adam, 61–2 motor vehicle tax, for funding highways, 25 motorways.

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See also specific locations Norton, Peter, 16, 124 Norway, 81–2, 209–10 not in my backyard (NIMBY), 164 NotPetya malware, 129 Noyce, Robert, 40–1 NSF, 55 NSFNET, 50–1 Nuro, 172–3 Ofo, 170–1 oil shocks, 203–4, 226 O’Mara, Margaret, 38 oN-Line System, 54–5 Organization of American States, 76 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, 203 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 76–7 Oslo, Norway, 209–10 Pacto Ecosocial del Sur, 225 Page, Larry, 121 Paris, France bike lanes in, 171 highway system in, 210–1 Paris Agreement, 74 parking free, 30 in Oslo, 209–10 particulate matter, in emissions, 84–5 pedestrians cities without, 191–3 deaths of, 16–7, 31–2 jaywalkers, 124–7, 215–6 Pennsylvania, autonomous robots in, 175 personal computers, compared with automobiles, 36–7 Peters, Benjamin, 57 Pishevar, Shervin, 105 PM10, 84 Portugal, lithium mine in, 226 Prius, 122 Proposition 22 (California), 111–2 public abundance, campaign for, 222 Public Utilities Commission (PUC), 110, 111 Quayside, 229–30 Quebec, Canada, 80 QWERTY keyboard, 54–5 Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 118 rate wars, for taxis, 96 Reagan, Ronald, 45, 48 recession, 24, 182, 199 Red Party, 209 regional commercial networks, 51 Renault-Nissan, 70 renewable energy, 190 Revenge of the Electric Car (film), 70–1, 81 Rickenbacker, E.V., 151 ride-hailing services.