Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 1, 2007 | 14 Comments

Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… Dr. Thomas Frieden accepting his new job as DOT commissioner this morning in Central Park. In a major restructuring of the Bloomberg Administration, outgoing Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall will be replaced by Public Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. Bloomberg’s surprise announcement came at a rare Sunday morning […]

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

Yesterday marked the opening of the Sexy Green Auto Show at the Eden Project bio theme park in Cornwall, UK. It’s a display meant to demonstrate that "green" cars (like the Ford Focus Flexi Fuel bio-ethanol number at right) don’t have to fit the clunky Birkenstock stereotype. As the Guardian notes, [T]he main task of […]

Mayor Says Toronto Will be North America’s Greenest City

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

Toronto Mayor David Miller vowed last week to make Toronto "the leading environmental city in North America." The Toronto Star reports: Mayor David Miller is pledging to slash the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and a whopping 80 per cent by 2050. Miller and city council will unveil a plan […]

Sydney Organizes World’s First Climate Change Blackout

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Reported on Yahoo news: Australia’s largest city will be plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday in an attempt at a world first blackout to raise awareness of global warming, organisers say. A successful switch-off could then be copied by major cities around the world in a drive to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions […]

Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By Jason Varone | Mar 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Velo’v public bicycle system in Lyon, France. By the end of 2007 the city of Paris will have 1,450 bike stations offering 20,000 bicycles. The Washington Post reports: On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered […]

Congestion Pricing: Does New York Have the Will?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 21, 2007 | 18 Comments

Brad Aaron reports: Political will, holistic planning, centralized management. That’s what Malcolm Murray-Clark says it takes to implement an effective congestion pricing plan. He should know. The Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London (TfL) oversees a program that is as ambitious as it is successful — a program that went from idea to […]

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