Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Memo to MTV: “Pimp My Bike” = Ratings Gold

By Ben Fried | Sep 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

Via TreeHugger, this YouTube clip features Oakland’s Trunk Boiz boasting about their scraper bikes, which sport custom-painted frames and rims to match (more photos here). The video has become an online sensation, drawing more than two million views. Tyrone Stevenson, one of the creators of the scraper bike style, is ready to capitalize, reports NPR: […]

Culture War on Wheels

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 17, 2008 | 18 Comments

Having dispensed with the question of whether an African-American or woman will ever make it to the White House, conservative Culture Warriors have moved on to defining and dividing Americans over their chosen mode of transportation. These two images have been floating around the right wing blogosphere under the shrieky, all-caps headline, "THIS IS ALL […]

Cartoon Tuesday: On-Street Edition

By Ben Fried | Sep 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

This intriguing bit of street art is the work of Peter Gibson, a.k.a. "Roadsworth", who’s been painting Montreal streets, sidewalks, and public spaces since 2001. He’s motivated by "a desire for more bike paths in the city and a questioning of ‘car culture’ in general," according to the design blog Toxel, where you can catch […]

This Just In: The Media Business Is Auto-Dependent Too

By Ben Fried | Aug 8, 2008 | 18 Comments

Think web sites are saturated with car ads? The internet’s got nothing on local TV. The graphic on the right comes from a recent Wall Street Journal article (preview only) on car makers’ attempts to curb their advertising budgets. The amount of money pouring into the media from the auto industry is staggering. Analysts predict […]

“Traffic” Author Tom Vanderbilt on Leonard Lopate Today at Noon

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 29, 2008 | No Comments

Author Tom Vanderbilt will be on Leonard Lopate at noon today, WNYC, 93.9 FM. Streetsbloggers will want to tune in. Vanderbilt takes all of the geeky and arcane transportation studies that we love to bandy about here on Streetsblog — induced demand, shared space, modal bias, you name it — he puts them together in […]

Can’t We All Just Share the Road?

By Ben Fried | Jul 17, 2008 | 15 Comments

Two recent road rage incidents are all over the news in Portland. Earlier this month, a drunken man on a bike became aggravated when a driver, himself a self-described bike advocate, reprimanded the cyclist for blowing a stoplight. The cyclist threatened the driver, picking up his bike and hitting the car with it. Then this […]

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