Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Daily News on Distracted Cab Drivers: What’s the Big Deal?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 19, 2009 | 7 Comments

In an apparent quest to see which local daily can issue the most ridiculously auto-centric assessment of the problems plaguing the public realm, the "New York" Post has some competition. In August, 8-year-old Axel Pablo was killed by a cab driver in Harlem. Witnesses say the cabbie was on his cell phone. Though police cleared […]

Are We Smarter Than a Third Grader? On Livable Streets, Maybe Not.

By Brad Aaron | Oct 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

The inspiring and, in a way, infuriating story of Elli Giammona popped up on the Streetsblog Network over the weekend. Livable streets prodigy Elli Giammona. Photo: The Missoulian Elli is a 9-year-old in Missoula, Montana who a couple of years ago began to question why she couldn’t bike to school. When her mother explained that […]

Fun With Data: How Workers Commute

By Mathew Katz | Oct 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Image: Census Bureau via Economix Bike Pittsburgh has posted some great, sortable data about how commuters get to work in major American cities, drawn from a Census Bureau report. As you’d expect, New York comes in as the city where the least amount of people commute solo by car — only 23.3 percent, followed by […]

The Assumption of Inconvenience

By Ryan Avent | Sep 30, 2009 | 32 Comments

The secret of European eco-friendliness? Maybe not. Photo: romerican/Flickr Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to this Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident […]

LaHood’s Distracted Driving Summit: Follow It Live

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

If you’ve got some free time at your desk over the next couple of days, drop in on the U.S. DOT distracted driving summit. There are plenty of platitudes flying around about the obvious need for "awareness" of how dangerous it is to operate a multi-thousand pound projectile while reading or typing, but there are […]

Fighting for the Right to Bike to School

By Brad Aaron | Sep 15, 2009 | 23 Comments

A couple of stories we’ve linked from headlines this week point to the continuation of a disturbing trend: families whose parents are questioned, criticized and even intimidated for encouraging their kids to bike or walk to school. Adam Marino: middle-schooler; revolutionary. In Saratoga Springs, reports The Saratogian, controversy has erupted over the Marino family’s desire […]

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