Energy and Equity – Ivan Illich

2. The car demands of those without a car that they behave according to the rules of its existence.– Wolfgang Sachs

3. Energy and Equity– Ivan Illich Past a certain threshold of energy consumption, the transportation industry dictates the configuration of social space. Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. Unchecked speed is expensive, and progressively fewer can afford it. Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink.

4. [The bicycle] creates only those demands which it can also satisfy. Every increase in motorized speed creates new demands on space and time. The use of the bicycle is self-limiting.– Illich, Energy & Equity

5. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one. Ecology as Politics– Andre Gorz

6. It is absurd to describe a plan that would massively redistribute resources from drivers, who have a higher average income, to transit riders, many of whom who have very low incomes, as regressive. "Equity" cannot be defined as everyone having a chance to engage in behavior that has inherently inequitable impacts. – Amy Traub, Drum Major Institute

7. We seek an environment in which mobility and community are no longer in conflict, in which they actually enhance and serve one another.– George Bliss