Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Ad Nauseam: General Motors’ Flying Cars

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 3, 2006 | 27 Comments

After receiving a heavy dose of car commercials during the New York Mets playoff run last month, I decided that it was time to start a new feature on Streetsblog called Ad Nauseum. Below is the first installment. Commercial: General Motors’ "Elevate" Created by: Deutsch, Los Angeles Narrative:Morning has broken across a smoggy, yellowish, post-Apocalyptic looking […]

Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons

By Jason Varone | Nov 2, 2006 | 1 Comment

A forthcoming study by Sheldon H. Jacobson at the University of Illinois suggests that Americans’ expanding waistlines have significantly increased the amount of fuel we burn. Americans are now pumping 938 million gallons of fuel more annually than they were in 1960 as a result of extra weight in vehicles. And when gas prices average […]

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 17, 2006 | 9 Comments

Via the Manhattan Institute’s new blog, Streetsblog learns of a pdf-formatted report entitled A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Famillies, which looks at the housing and transportation expenses paid by lower income families in a number of cities. The report, published by the Center for Housing Policy, a K Street […]

DOT’s Missed Opportunity on the Manhattan Bridge

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 16, 2006 | 13 Comments

On Friday, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall stood up in front of 600 people at Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference and said that her agency was serious about reducing car use in New York City. It was a great policy speech. Then on Sunday morning I flipped on the radio and heard that […]

‘Unnecessary Driving’ Banned in Buffalo

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 14, 2006 | 1 Comment

Photo: Mike Groll/Associated Press via The New York Times BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2006 (AP) — A rare early October snowstorm left parts of western New York blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday morning. … Unnecessary driving was banned in Buffalo and suburbs Amherst, Blasdell, Orchard Park and Hamburg.

Parking it in Midtown

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 21, 2006 | 21 Comments

Today is International Park(ing) Day. Also known as a "parking squat," Park(ing) is a quasi-legal reclamation of urban street space in which a metered, curbside parking spaces are transformed into urban parkland complete with sod, benches, trees and human beings. Here is how Park(ing) Day is being celebrated this morning in Midtown Manhattan on 8th […]

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