"He clearly recognized that BMW's dependence on car models would be a barrier, as it tried to expand its lineup," said Wesley Brown, an auto industry analyst at Nextrend., of Thousand Oaks, Calif.
In a prescient 1972 article in The Atlantic, Stewart Udall, an interior secretary under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, warned of America's excessive dependence on cars and called for this approach.
6. SWITCHING GEARS: To discourage dependence on cars on campus, Wildcat Wheels at the University of Kentucky gives students free bicycles for a day or semester.
Seleta Reynolds, Los Angeles' new chief of transportation, wants to help break L.A.'s dependence on cars.
North America scores below average due to its high dependence on cars.
A refurbished bus rapid transit station on Fulton Street would help minimize dependence on cars and taxis.
Not only are there social benefits of fostering a local community, but so-called transit orientated developments, he says, "can assist cities in their wealth creation by the simple fact that TODs reduce the external costs of car dependence.
They say the eco-town will damage local countryside and wildlife and only create, rather than solve, environmental problems; they claim it will become just another enclave of car dependence.
This is also reflected by the construction of the new Metro Purple Line, which will connect disjointed urban space to LACMA, along with L.A. residents' increasing lack of car dependence, opting to use Uber and Lyft instead.
The dependence of PPARα and CAR-regulated gene transcription on coactivator PBP/MED1, but not on PRIP, attests to the existence of coactivator selectivity in nuclear receptor function at least in the liver (10, 31).
The research hypotheses examined the role of sprawl, dependence on the car, and the design and form of suburbs on physical activity and overweight.
