Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Can You Name the Town?

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 9, 2006 | 18 Comments

Sorry I missed posting last week’s Weekly Carnage everyone. I was out of town, um, visiting the strip mall in the photo above. Every time I leave the city I end up in a place like this: A sea of unused parking spaces in front of a strip mall accessible only by the car with no housing anywhere […]

Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 27, 2006 | 16 Comments

Last week, columnist Steve Dunleavy used his 400-word rant-space in the New York Post to urge the city’s cab riders and motorists to throw open their car doors in front of "pedal punks" riding their "maiming machines," and, "take back the streets" from bike-commuting "kamikaze jerks." City cyclists, already feeling vulnerable after a month of […]

A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

This is an artist’s rendering of what West 125th Street would look like after Columbia University’s expansion is completed more than a decade from now. (It is included in an overview of the plans that appears in the print edition of Columbia magazine, which, um, hasn’t updated its web presence in a while.) Regardless of whether you’re […]

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | Jul 16, 2006 | No Comments

Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]

See You at the Beach

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 14, 2006 | 3 Comments

This is how StreetsBlog rolls: Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal‘s diamond-studded, mink-furnished $4.8 million Mercedes SL600 Mercedes, his 38th car. Source: TransportTrends

That’s Dictatorship for You

By Nick Grossman | Jul 13, 2006 | No Comments

The Guardian reports that China is suddenly rediscovering the joys of urban bicycle transportation after a decade of motor mania: The construction ministry announced on Thursday that any bike lanes that have been narrowed or destroyed to make way for cars in recent years must be returned to their original glory. This followed orders on Tuesday that […]

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