Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

“Vision Zero”: Not One More Traffic Death

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2007 | 8 Comments

Airline safety has improved dramatically in the last 10 years, after two 1996 crashes killed 375 people. “This is the golden age of safety, the safest period, in the safest mode, in the history of the world.” That’s Marion C. Blakey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, speaking last month just before the end […]

StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

Clarence Eckerson may have set an all-time speed record for the production of this inspiring StreetFilm on Park(ing) Day 2007. It’s a good one. Seeing pre-schoolers participating in an outdoor music class — in a parking space — on Brooklyn’s busy Cortelyou Rd., you definitely get the feeling that Park(ing) Day has, in just a […]

Delucchi Study Finds That U.S. Motorists Do Not Pay Their Way

By Charles Komanoff | Sep 20, 2007 | 23 Comments

A dozen or so years ago, back when congestion pricing was a distant dream and New York City’s number one transportation priority was to squeeze more transit funding from government, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign commissioned me to determine which was greater: the dollars that New York State governments took in from drivers, or the […]

The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid

By Jason Varone | Sep 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

Thinking of getting rid of your car? You could sell it, but that means somebody else is eventually going to drive it on our city’s streets, contributing to air pollution and congestion. The Black Car Collective has a better idea: entomb it in black stucco. The idea is instead of a functional art car we […]

New York: A “Drivers’ Paradise”

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2007 | 35 Comments

Move over, biker babes. A presumably tongue-in-cheek article in the Observer heralds the "Californication of New York," thanks to the proliferation of automobiles in "young, lifestyle neighborhoods" like Williamsburg, Astoria and Inwood. According to the piece, a growing number of suburban transplants see auto reliance as a comforting reminder of home. "I didn’t realize how […]

Americans Growing Too Large for Their Cars

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Cadillac XLR two-seater has a weight capacity of 362 pounds. Irony of ironies. It sounds like a plot line from "The Simpsons" — and, the fates willing, someday will be — but it seems Americans are growing too obese to be transported safely by many car models. USA Today has the skinny: The growing […]

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