2009 Transportation Quote of the Year
From bikeportland.org October 30, 2009,
Speaking in Portland, OR, Mikael Colville-Andersen, a Danish planner, marketer, and world-wide consultant on how to "Copenhagenize" western cities, equated the car with a bull running around a china shop and said that to make cycling mainstream, we need to emphasize the dangers of the automobile.
“Someone has let a sacred bull in society’s China shop… We can all agree that there is a bull in the china shop, we can all be realistic and think the bull’s not going anywhere (it’s gotten too big to fit out the door now). So we bubble wrap all the pieces of expensive china and meanwhile the bull just knocked over eight shelves in aisle 9 and took a shit on the floor. It’s strange, we’ve developed this fantastic capacity to completely and utterly ignore the bull.”
... people should do something to “limit its destructive capabilities” such as “castrate it to make it calmer, tie it down, or build a fence around it.”
