A car does indeed throw you into the future, just like a wedding ring or a house, or even a college education. What is beautiful, I think, about the kinds of infrastructure we see in city projects (things like bridges, subways, etc.), we are still being thrown into the future, but on a scale that points to, rather than denies, finitude. You buy a car, beyond the practical concern, there is the implication that there will one day be another car -- you move into the future. You build a subway, well, you can hardly move into the future so far as to see the next subway. A private purchase denies finitude, a municipal purchase points to it. In that regard, it is exactly as Lewis Mumford said: "The final mission of the city is to further man’s conscious participation in the cosmic and historic process."
Eastside got fucked with the elimination of 13 routes 2 1/2 years ago. There was no vote to keep them, no response from Seattle or county leaders to keep those routes.
And high mpg electrics (1000 mpge) and hybrids (60mpg$ driven by the rich that pay zero or close to zero in gas and sales taxes for the roads.
Housing, duh. Have you priced a place in the city recently?
Eastside got fucked with the elimination of 13 routes 2 1/2 years ago. There was no vote to keep them, no response from Seattle or county leaders to keep those routes.