Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Just What India Needs: The $3,000 Car

By Jason Varone | Jun 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Sierra Club points out that in India, there are currently about 7 cars per 1,000 persons (as compared to nearly 500 per 1,000 in the US). With the advent of the $3,000 car, that is surely about to change. The Independent’s Andrew Buncombe reports: If India’s roads seem cluttered and inadequate, things are set […]

Carpetbagging Drivers Head to North Carolina for Plates

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 27, 2007 | 22 Comments

On his frequent runs and bike rides around his Jackson Heights neighborhood and nearby Corona and Elmhurst, Will Sweeney recently started noticing something strange: a lot of license plates from North Carolina. Sweeney writes: Two weekends ago, I decided to take an informal and unscientific survey of license plates in these three neighborhoods. I found […]

Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away

By Jason Varone | Jun 25, 2007 | 4 Comments

Sean Roche of Newton Streets and Sidewalks sends along a good one: Allstate found that that drivers in Flint and Warren, Michigan were some of the "most improved" when it came to reducing the number of car crashes. The insurance company rewarded motorists in those towns with ten free gallons of gas. What was the […]

Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 25, 2007 | 8 Comments

When George Monbiot, the popular columnist for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, gets interested in something, he digs and digs until he’s found what he’s satisfied is the truth. Monbiot is interested in global warming, and presents in Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (U.S. Edition: South End Press, May 2007) a heavily footnoted 215-page brisk and compelling case for why […]

StreetFilms: A London Driver Discusses Congestion Pricing

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

In this StreetFilm by Nick Whitaker, level-headed London motorist Barny Crocker talks about how congestion charging has effected London traffic and his own driving habits: "There was massive resistance to the congestion charge when it was first brought in but as soon as it came in I think everyone was quite surprised at how effective […]

Gov’t Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 21, 2007 | 3 Comments

A tipster sends along this snapshot of the parking lot… I mean, sidewalk, outside the High Bridge Recreational Center prior to the meeting last night to discuss plans for the revitalized High Bridge. The talk inside, she says, "was much more encouraging" than the government employee parking situation outside.

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