Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 27, 2007 | 12 Comments

"It seemed to me that what was significantly undermining the ordinary daily happiness and health and economic life of both me and my fellow New Yorkers was the private car." –– Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton recently interviewed New York Times Magazine’s "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen, on the […]

SUVs Are Not Cool, Unless They’re “Hybrid Hybrids”

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2007 | 48 Comments

Here’s a pretty repulsive ad for Ford’s Escape Hybrid SUV. In it, a middle-aged father and his middle school-aged daughter are strolling from their leafy suburban home to the family truckster — a green one, natch — when the daughter asks to be dropped off a block from the theater where, we’re to assume, her […]

Alan Durning’s “Year of Living Carlessly” and “Bicycle Neglect”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 2 Comments

Alan Durning, executive director of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute has been doing some great writing on Livable Streets and sustainable transport issues over the last year. If you haven’t run across his work, he is writing a pair of ongoing series that I think will be of particular interest to Streetsblog readers. On Friday, Durning […]

Queens Civic Congress Has Its Own Plan

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 31, 2007 | 3 Comments

No one who comes before the NYC Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission is going to admit to liking congestion. If they’re against the mayor’s congestion-pricing plan, they are usually going to come up with some kind of alternative. Take the Queens Civic Congress, which advanced its position at an Oct. 30 hearing. Jim Trent, the chair […]

The Horror

By Jason Varone | Oct 31, 2007 | 5 Comments

Here is a horrifically entertaining way to kick off your Halloween day: James Howard Kunstler’s "Eyesore of the Month." October’s Eyesore is a drive-thru ATM machine in Caseyville, Illinois. Kunstler writes: The Ionic columns are a nice touch. What I like best is that only two of them are required to hold up the massive […]

Philly CarShare Helps City Government Reduce Its Fleet

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Philly CarShare program (Motto: "Why own when you can borrow?") is one of the most successful of its kind in the country. Currently in its fifth year, the Philadelphia-based non-profit recently surpassed 30,000 members and is generating $10 million annually to pay for a small staff, the purchase and maintenance of a fleet, and […]

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