Chicagoist: Chicago Auto Show Preview

Jeremy

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:59:35 -0600

This will be my 18th annual visit to the Auto Show (I'm 25.) And, for the record, I ride my bike to work every day and hate SUVs.

Moon

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:15:52 -0600

I hate cars. Especially cabs. I think they should bury Lake Shore Drive. Anybody who isn't driving a car that gets at LEAST 60 mpg by 2010 should be hung up by his/her nuts. /Chicks with dicks

mike

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:01:22 -0600

I went to the auto show seven years ago when I first moved here. I took the CTA there. When I left, I walked outside into a very bitter cold and waited (with scores of others) forty minutes for a CTA bus. The irony was not lost on me or my fellow passengers.

More Spook

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:38:37 -0600

O.K, but on the real and all jokes aside, a spokes person from Break the Gridlock, Michael Burton in a editorial in the Suntimes points out how ironic it is that, on the heels of Bush's admission that America is addicted to oil,The 2006 Chicago Auto Show is celebrating America's gluttonous appetite for oil and our fetishization of the car. We consume about twice as much oil per person as other industrialized nations due mostly to our over-reliance on automobiles. The question is when are we going to prioritize and adequately fund efficient forms of transportation such as bus, rail, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure? I'm glade the Break the Gridlock folks will be on hand to remind people about the true costs of our costly oil addiction: the pollution, the billions in health-related costs due to car crashes, our military forces that keep oil flowing. Maybe people should instead of spending their time looking at their dream S.U.Vs consider what it means to free ourselves from our oil addiction by working toward a sane national transportation policy instead of the current one designed by Exxon, General Motors, etc. I attended the shut down last year and was amazed at how many obviously poor and working poor families turned out to "ow and ahhh" over million dollars cars. Some thing is very wrong here people!

Spook

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:11:31 -0600

Hey Chicagoist are you really referring to the The Seventh Annual Auto Show SHUTDOWN Festival celebrating the impending end of the automobile age? You know, that festival that begins at Daley Plaza on Saturday, February 11th at 11 am, and continues with a short bicycle ride to the Auto Show, arriving at 12 noon at the McCormick Place King Drive Entrance?