L.A.’s got nothing on Boulder – L.A. Is Creating Traffic Jams to Push Commuters to Ride Bikes and Rail – Reason.com

Coming soon to a city near you: the misguided movement to force you out of your car and onto a bike or trolley.

Oh it’s already here. And a peak into the future…

Road diets are part of a strategy known as Vision Zero, in which Los Angeles aims to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities by 2025. It’s an idea borrowed from Sweden, which in the ’90s started experimenting with reconfiguring the roads to encourage more commuters to bike or take mass transit to work.

Sweden, custom made for the pseudo-intellectual elites inhabiting Boulder.