Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Does Your Commute Suck? Tell Us About It.

By Sarah Goodyear | May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

This morning our friends over at Transportation for America are launching a new site called My Commute Sucks, designed to give people around the country a place to vent their frustration over the nation’s overburdened and inefficient transportation systems. Commuters can share their tales of commuting woe, upload photos and videos, and also take action […]

The IndyKids Are Alright

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2009 | 7 Comments

IndyKids is a New York-based school newspaper distributed online and in print nationwide to students in grades four through eight. With its distinctly progressive point of view, the ad-free pub aims to counter the often commercialized infotainment that has been piped into American classrooms for decades. Say the editors: "We believe that kids understand what […]

Nate Silver: Is American Car Culture on the Skids?

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2009 | 5 Comments

Nate Silver, the stat-mining fortune teller behind FiveThirtyEight.com, has written a piece for Esquire suggesting that Americans may be weaning themselves off their collective auto addiction. Falling gas prices aside, driving has been on the decline since late 2007, Silver notes. Taking factors like population and unemployment into account, he wonders: Could it be that […]

What’s Really Dangerous for Kids? Hint: It Has Four Wheels and a Tailpipe.

By Sarah Goodyear | May 5, 2009 | 11 Comments

Photo by pawpaw67 via Flickr. When she wrote a column for the New York Sun last year about letting her nine-year-old ride the subway on his own, Lenore Skenazy was pilloried by many as an irresponsible mom. She stuck to her guns, though, and started a blog dedicated to "sane parenting", advocating the idea that […]

“Do as We Say, Not as We Do” = No Model for Sustainability

By Brad Aaron | Apr 8, 2009 | 23 Comments

Traffic in Delhi and Atlanta. Notice which scene also includes bikes. Photos: Ri Co Fo To and silvrayn via Flickr Environmentally-conscious citizens of India aren’t alone in their concern about the rollout of the Tata Nano, the "world’s cheapest car." But in an op-ed piece for Forbes, Projjal Dutta, the director of sustainability initiatives for […]

Dangerous Drivers Declare Themselves Above the Law

By Ben Fried | Mar 27, 2009 | 14 Comments

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on the extraordinary lengths that a certain breed of driver will go to in order to avoid culpability for speeding and red-light running. With the use of automated enforcement cameras on the rise, some motorists are making it abundantly clear that they see themselves as above the law: Drivers — […]

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