Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide?

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 5, 2007 | 63 Comments

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this weekend by Conor Dougherty on the municipal move toward charging more for parking. It’s available online to paid subscribers only, but here’s a taste: As anyone who has ever circled the block for a marginally better spot knows, parking is an American obsession. It occasionally boils over […]

Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 2, 2007 | No Comments

Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam," is best-known to many New Yorkers through his Daily News column about the city’s quotidian traffic woes. Schwartz is the president and CEO of Sam Schwartz LLC, a traffic planning and engineering firm that has worked on projects including the JFK AirTrain, the IKEA project in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and […]

Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 30, 2007 | 10 Comments

A new study to be published in the Feb. 17 issue of the Lancet makes a strong case for the link between proximity to vehicular traffic and poor lung function in children. An article on Medical News Today sums up the report, which is currently available online to Lancet subscribers. [R]esearchers at the Keck School […]

Don’t Ask Me About My Hummer

By Aaron Donovan | Jan 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

From the political left, concern is growing about global warming. From the political right, concern is growing about the United States funding both sides on the war on terror. Health officials worry about a national epidemic of obesity and high urban asthma rates, urbanists are concerned with degraded, atrophied public spaces. Slowly but perceptibly, people of all political persuasions are waking […]

The State of the City

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg delivered his State of the City address at Brooklyn Tech yesterday afternoon. Anyone hoping to hear policy proposals on traffic, transportation, livable streets, climate change and long-term sustainability issues was likely disappointed. During the speech, a Streetsblog tipster happened to be biking along Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn on his way to the […]

Wheels: The New York Times’ New Auto Blog

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 9, 2007 | 13 Comments

Just when it seemed like congestion pricing proponent Carolyn Curiel and Portland native David Shipley were helping to steer the the New York Times in a greener more urban environmentally aware direction, the Times launches Wheels, their new Auto Blog. Its mission: Cover the Detroit Auto Show and help drivers and auto enthusiasts know new […]

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