Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Weird Science: Do Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists?

By Jason Varone | May 31, 2007 | 17 Comments

Following Alex Marshall’s essay on bicycle helmets this morning, Scientific American recently reported on a paradox emerging in relation to helmets and traffic accidents. It seems that drivers are a lot more scared of hitting you if you leave your protective gear at home: Spring is in full swing now, and a number of the […]

Streetfilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 30, 2007 | 11 Comments

Intersection RepairRunning time: 10:42 Have you ever dreamed of making the streets outside your home more livable, pedestrian-friendly, and community-oriented? City Repair in Portland, Oregon hosts an annual Village Building Convergence where hundreds of people come together to build diverse projects for the benefit of their communites and to take back their streets via a […]

LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation

By Jason Varone | May 30, 2007 | 6 Comments

Every week, KCRW radio’s Marc Porter Zasada sets out to fathom Los Angeles on his show The Urban Man. This week he talks about neighborhoods, how fragile they are and how easily they can be lost to bad traffic engineering: On Monday you walked around the block for coffee and croissants, down where narrow streets […]

Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths

By Sarah Goodyear | May 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

According to a new study out from the city’s Department of Health, children in New York are seven times less likely than children nationwide to die as car passengers. That’s the good news, likely the result of the fact that our kids spend a lot less time in cars than most American children. The bad […]

The ‘Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous?

By Charles Komanoff | May 30, 2007 | 12 Comments

Long Island is safe. So safe that police recruits are flocking to the island’s two counties, according to an article in last Tuesday’s New York Times: High pay coupled with low crime rates make a coveted Long Island job “like winning the lottery in law enforcement,” said Eugene O’Donnell, a professor of law and police […]

Blind Spots in SUVs Still Killing Kids

By Sarah Goodyear | May 24, 2007 | No Comments

Growing public awareness of the danger posed to children by the huge blind spots in SUVs has led to likely passage of what is known as the Kids and Cars act in this session of Congress. But it remains unclear whether the now-weakened bill will adequately address rear-visibility issues that have led to the deaths […]

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