Telegraph for People: Activist group’s effort to ban cars on Berkeley street gains traction

BRANDON YUNG WAS 16 years old when he realized that most American cities weren’t designed with people in mind. Without a car to go from place to place, the urban sprawl of his south Pasadena neighborhood outside Los Angeles left him feeling isolated.

Yung would spend the next few years attending activist meetings in Downtown LA and absorbed in online urbanist communities before enrolling at UC Berkeley in 2018. Facebook groups such as New Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens helped mitigate his growing discontent for the miles-long distances that separated him from his hometown.