Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Subway

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2007 | 4 Comments

The city’s Critical Mass crackdown has apparently reduced the number of participants — or maybe it was the weather. Either way, the spirit and ingenuity of the riders remains intact. According to BikeBlog, rather than succumb to the scooter cop horde like "lambs to the slaughter," cyclists gathered for Friday’s mass decamped from Union Square, […]

Meet the Cloggers

By Jason Varone | Apr 30, 2007 | No Comments

The Daily News reports that most drivers to be affected by Bloomberg’s congestion pricing are from the Upper East Side and Queens: If Mayor Bloomberg wants to discourage New Yorkers from driving to work, he could start with his own neighbors. The upper East Side has thousands of residents who drive to jobs in Manhattan […]

Highway Collapse Causes Transit Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2007 | 4 Comments

An early morning tanker truck crash that collapsed a portion of heavily-traveled freeway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has shut down the artery indefinitely. In response, officials are urging Bay Area motorists to take transit. Standing near the wreckage Sunday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed that the state would respond quickly. Schwarzenegger declared […]

Can Technology Make Public Transit More Alluring?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 27, 2007 | 5 Comments

Would they get out of their cars if they could surf the Web on the bus? A recent article in USA Today looks at technological fixes for environmental problems — including traffic — caused by America’s exploding consumption of resources. The USA is growing more rapidly than any other developed nation and is projected to […]

Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT’s 9th Street Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 27, 2007 | 6 Comments

If you live in or around Park Slope, Brooklyn, then please take just a minute to click this link and send a fax to Borough President Marty Markowitz expressing your support for DOT’s traffic safety plan for 9th Street. As we’ve reported here on Streetsblog, the Department of Transportation has put forward a thoughtful and […]

Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York

By Jason Varone | Apr 26, 2007 | 7 Comments

In his most recent article for the Guardian, London mayor Ken Livingstone applauds Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to introduce congestion pricing in New York City: New York is now to get congestion charging modelled on London’s successful scheme. Isn’t it about time the naysayers admitted they were wrong? Retail sales in central London are far outperforming […]

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