Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Paging Albert Camus — time for a sequel.

The Fires This Time: There is No Plan to Limit Driving During Health Emergencies Like This One

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 7, 2023 | No Comments

City officials admitted on Wednesday that they have no plan to deal with pollution like the city is experiencing today — not even an emergency health protocol to require mandatory carpooling.

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The Debt Ceiling Deal Could Be Bad News For Freeway Fighters

By Kea Wilson | Jun 2, 2023 | No Comments

A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations, advocates warn.

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Opinion: What Two Massacres in Texas — One With a Car, One With a Gun — Reveal About America’s Culture of Violence

By Kea Wilson | May 11, 2023 | No Comments

Two eerily similar mass killings in Texas had very different coverage. One involved a gun. The other, a car.

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Traffic Studies Are ‘Junk Science’ — Yet Planners, Courts Rely on Them Anyway

By Kea Wilson | Apr 9, 2023 | No Comments

Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could change.

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The Brake Podcast: How to Reframe the Narrative About Car Dependency

By Kea Wilson | Mar 30, 2023 | No Comments

On today's episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson brings you an extended interview with Grant Ennis, author of Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment. Listen now.

Albany’s Residential Parking Program Won’t Be Good for New York City: Analysis

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 16, 2023 | No Comments

A Senate proposal to encourage New York City to create a Residential Parking Permit system won't help break the city's car culture, multiple studies show.

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