What does it mean when a fashionable car magazine features a dressed up bike messenger holding a bike on the cover? Intersection Magazine just thinks fixed gear bicycles (and vintage yachts!) make fashionable accessories for your car. The fashion spread of bike messengers with their bikes, the feature on ReBar’s Parking spot intervention and David Gallaugher’s grass lined wheel are interesting from a design and fashion perspective, but overlook what they mean to urban life: bikes are the quickest way through a city, excessive private parking deprives people of public space, and there just isn’t enough space to ditch our shoes and run barefoot in the grass. Considering Intersection Magazine’s manifesto, it’s not surprising they glossed over the problems cars cause.

Cars move us. Cars let us go where we want, when we want, how we want - they reflect our desires as they answer our needs. On the street, they’re our clothes. On the move, they’re our homes - we use them as our living rooms, offices, studios and sometimes our bedrooms.

Only 2 in 10 New York City residents even own a car, and unless they have a congestion fetish, they’re not effective for selfishly getting them where they want, when they want or how they want. Even more ridiculous are Intersection’s “Urban Aggressive Off-Roading” videos championing SUVs recklessly driving through roundabouts and skateparks, the sort of spaces ReBar and Gallaugher were promoting through their art.

Get out of here. New York City has enough people being killed by vehicles.