The Car Is Not Dead

But the Car of the Future Is Something Entirely Different—and Only One of Many Ways We’ll Be Getting Around

Don’t sell your car just yet—but be prepared to get to where you’re going in a lot of different ways. This was the conclusion of a discussion about car culture co-presented by Metro in front of a large crowd at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Automobile Magazine editor-in-chief Mike Floyd, the evening’s moderator, offered a preview of what was to come by explaining how each panelist had gotten to the downtown L.A. venue: One person walked, one took the bus, one mapped out the side streets, and another drove—and got caught in traffic.

That …

When Rest Stops Were America’s Best Roadside Attractions

Remember When Road Trips Included Stopping for Picnics and Enjoying the View?

A picnic table shadowed by an enormous teepee; a covered structure in the middle of a vast red desert; a shady spot under the cover of a gigantic wagon wheel. …

Chasing Holocaust Ghosts Down Route 66

Coping with Survival, My Father Took the Family for the Ride of Our Lives on America’s Mother Road

When I was 9 my father, Jacob, uprooted me from my magical boyhood in Detroit to chase ghosts down historic Route 66. We were bound for L.A.

Like Dust Bowl Okies, …

LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds

Hardly Ever Stuck in Traffic—But When She Is, She Sings

Before becoming general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) in 2014, Seleta Reynolds was a manager in in the livable streets sub-division at the San Francisco Municipal …

CicLAvia Founder Aaron Paley

Living the (Childhood) Dream

Aaron Paley is co-founder and executive director of the CicLAvia bike festival in Los Angeles. Before participating in a panel on whether L.A. is mobile enough to be a global …

FAST Executive Director Hilary Norton

How Lucky We Are to Live in a City Like This

Hilary Norton is the executive director of Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic (FAST). Before participating in a panel on the future of traffic in L.A., she talked the Vatican, her …