Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

“Modal Bias” on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 21, 2007 | 18 Comments

Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek will be talking with Brian and others about why motorists, cyclists and pedestrians don’t seem to get along too well these days. Feel free to call in. 93.9 FM. From the WNYC web site: Why cyclists, drivers and pedestrians can’t just get along, with Aaron Naparstek, editor of Streetsblog, a blog […]

How Americans Get to Work

By Jason Varone | Jun 19, 2007 | 5 Comments

According to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis of data from the American Community Survey, most Americans drive to work — alone, and public transportation commuters are concentrated in a handful of large cities. From the Bureau’s press release: Despite rising fuel costs, commuters continued to drive their cars in 2005. The survey, gathered over […]

File Under: Only in America

By Jason Varone | Jun 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Sean Roche of the Newton Streets and Sidewalks blog sends along this sad, bizarre, disturbing item: A Tennessee dad named Larry Price set up a charity after his son suffered and survived a severe head injury in a bicycling accident. The charity, Cars for Kids, held a legal street drag race in Selmer Tennessee. During […]

The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 19, 2007 | 15 Comments

The Staten Island Advance ran an article last Thursday about a "perfect storm" of crushing Staten Island-bound traffic on the Gowanus Expressway and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. To give you a sense of the frustrated tone of the article, it was entitled "21-Month Nightmare: Agency Offers Zero Solutions for Verrazano Lane Mess." Here’s how it began: […]

An Old Car Interred

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 18, 2007 | 20 Comments

Bud & Walter Brewer Collection/Tulsa Historical Society, via The New York Times. Fifty years ago last Friday, the people of Tulsa, Oklahoma, assembled downtown and buried a brand new Plymouth Belvedere hardtop as a time capsule to be opened in 2007. The car, and $100 plus 50 years worth of accrued compound interest (a bit more than $700), would […]

City Transit Commuters: A Modest Assessment

By Brad Aaron | Jun 14, 2007 | 17 Comments

Given some of the unfathomable declarations floated in the name of opposition to congestion pricing ("We have to do something about the pedestrians"), it’s hard not to wonder what goes on in the minds of those who so passionately reject any perceived infringement upon their "right" to clog the streets and poison the air for […]

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