Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

The Car Loan Loophole: How Auto Dealers Dodged Financial Reform

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Jul 13, 2010 | No Comments

The fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but the country’s auto dealers have been exempted from the financial reform bill now in its final stage in Congress. Given that the purpose of the bill is to protect Americans from harmful manipulation by the people selling them financial products, this is a pretty stunning development. The nation’s […]

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Jon Stewart Lambastes 40 Years of Presidential Posturing on Oil

By Matthew Roth | Jun 17, 2010 | No Comments

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c An Energy-Independent Future www.thedailyshow.com Jon Stewart fired one of his more brilliant salvos last night, synthesizing 40 years of political posturing around energy independence and America’s addiction to foreign oil in just under eight minutes of satire. Drawing on this week’s speech from […]

New York Drivers Among the Most Ignorant of Traffic Laws

By Brad Aaron | May 27, 2010 | 27 Comments

With the summer "driving season" almost upon us, a startling new survey finds that about 20 percent of American motorists — close to 38 million people — don’t know enough to pass a written driving test. GMAC Insurance put 20 questions before some 5,000 licensed drivers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Little Green Man and the Lizard Squeezins

By Brad Aaron | May 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

Sometimes it takes an outsider’s perspective to see things clearly. So what would an extra-terrestrial think of humankind’s dependence on fossil fuels? In light of the devastation being unleashed off the shores of the Gulf states, cartoonist and recent Pulitzer recipient Mark Fiore files this brilliant summation of the absurdly self-destructive lengths we earthlings go […]

Is New York City the Car Culture Capital of America?

By Noah Kazis | Mar 29, 2010 | 14 Comments

When you hear the words "car culture," what — or where — do you think of? The freeways of Los Angeles? The factories of Detroit? With its new show, "Cars, Culture and the City," the Museum of the City of New York attempts to retell the history of the automobile with New York City at […]

A Fresh Look at American Sprawl

By Noah Kazis | Mar 8, 2010 | 27 Comments

There’s only one Concrete, WA, but concrete and asphalt are the welcome mats for towns across America. Image: Gord McKenna/Flickr. American advocates for livable streets know that our addiction to the automobile is almost without peer. We know that we’ve given our land to driving lanes and parking lots and our air to exhaust fumes. […]

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