Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Congestion Relief: It’s About Your Health

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 2, 2007 | 1 Comment

Yesterday’s New York Times editorial on transportation policy makes a strong case for linking concerns about traffic congestion to concerns about health. It’s worth looking at the full text of All Choked Up, the report from Environmental Defense that the paper references when arguing that in order to achieve his goal of a sustainable city, […]

Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 1, 2007 | 14 Comments

Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… Dr. Thomas Frieden accepting his new job as DOT commissioner this morning in Central Park. In a major restructuring of the Bloomberg Administration, outgoing Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall will be replaced by Public Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. Bloomberg’s surprise announcement came at a rare Sunday morning […]

Why Can’t I Go the Wrong Way on a One Way Street?

By Jason Varone | Mar 30, 2007 | No Comments

From a recent Gridlock Sam column in the Daily News: Dear Gridlock Sam: I received a summons for driving the wrong way in a one-way street. I do admit that I made a wrong turn in a one-way street, and when I did reach the end of that street I resumed driving correctly. I remember […]

Zipcar, Meet Zipbike

By Brad Aaron | Mar 30, 2007 | 14 Comments

Two remarkably similar yet fundamentally different campaigns are underway to promote vehicle sharing in the city. Earlier this month the Brooklyn Record noted a new web site devoted to attracting Zipcar service to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Zip Fort Greene says, "The closest [ZipCar] wheels are a brisk 15 minute walk (and once construction […]

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

Yesterday marked the opening of the Sexy Green Auto Show at the Eden Project bio theme park in Cornwall, UK. It’s a display meant to demonstrate that "green" cars (like the Ford Focus Flexi Fuel bio-ethanol number at right) don’t have to fit the clunky Birkenstock stereotype. As the Guardian notes, [T]he main task of […]

Ungrateful Liberal Scum, “We Do Not Summons Our Own.”

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 28, 2007 | 37 Comments

A certain sense of entitlement emerges in the UncivilServants comments section. Posted verbatim, no spelling check: I have no intensions of ever parking legally whenever I am in NYC. It is a perk that has been in standard practice since the end of time. It is not the officer’s fault that the NYPD does not […]

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