Melting the arctic ice.

Externalities - The Hidden Costs of Autosprawl This page is a work in progress: it will be long. Send in your additions for the list. Carbon dioxide emissions - global-warming. Oil wars.     Deaths from traffic collisions.  Permanent injuries from traffic collisions. Medical costs and bureaucracy from deaths and injuries. Noise. Emotional stress. Residual lead pollution. Parking lots. Parking high-rises. "Free" parking. Road construction and maintenance. Stream pollution. Flooding. Social cost of roads splitting up neighborhoods (thanks, John S.) Low aquifers from overpaving. Traffic enforcement: Police time, cameras, bureaucracy, judges, courts. Parking enforcement: meters, courts, judges, boots. Auto insurance bureaucracy. Billions spent fighting sprawlers in court. The two years of your life spent sitting still in traffic. Waiting in line for your car at the high-rise parking lot. Trying to arrange transportation while your car is in the shop. Obesity (thanks, Carol B.) Isolation and lack of public space skills and appreciation (thanks, Carol B.) Heat emergency contingent planning and cooling centers. Wildfires.   send in your favorites....report broken links

Paving paradise.

Supporting the world's SUVs.