Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about China

Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2021 | No Comments

And as the bike shortages of the Covid-19 pandemic recently revealed, the absence of a robust domestic bike industry can itself become a barrier to getting Americans riding.

Meet a Car-Hating Chinese Kid Who Speaks for the Entire World

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 12, 2019 | No Comments

Like all of us, he's mad as hell — and he's not going to take it anymore.

STREETSBLOG USA

China’s Investment in Subways Puts the U.S. to Shame

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 18, 2018 | No Comments

China is currently in the midst of the most ambitious subway construction boom the world has ever seen.

Congestion Charging on the Horizon for China’s Cities

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 18, 2013 | 6 Comments

Which Chinese city will be the first to try congestion pricing? Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai — megacities whose populations are on the scale of New York’s? Or second-tier but still mighty cities (think Chicago) like Hangzhou, Nanjing, or Xi’an? Road tolling à la American turnpikes and thruways is already extensive in China, as a means to […]

STREETSBLOG USA

Car Ownership May Be Down in the U.S., But It’s Soaring Globally

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 5, 2013 | No Comments

Two weeks ago, transportation researcher Michael Sivak brought us the news that there are fewer cars per person in the U.S. now than there were a few years ago – and that the number isn’t expected to rise again. But globally, the trend is in the opposite direction, and it’s alarming. The world is producing more […]

Show More Stories