The love affair is over

• Autores: Micheline Maynard
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 52, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 1-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Maynard examines America's relationship with the automobile. Economic and environmental concerns, along with dramatic social shifts, have caused Americans to begin to rethink their dependence on automobiles. Driving, which has been on more or less an upward slope since the end of World War II, has dropped from the peaks of last decade. Teens, glued to their mobile devices and chauffeured by helicopter parents, show little interest in getting their licenses. Cities are racing to add bike-sharing programs in order to gain cachet with their growing populations of young residents. At the same time, communities both large and small are competing for the billions of public-transportation dollars that the Obama administration has been doling out.