Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Road Warrior: Los Angeles Edition

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2007 | 10 Comments

What is it like to bike in a much more hostile environment than New York City? Conan Nolan reports for NBC TV, Los Angeles: CONAN NOLAN: It’s just the start of the afternoon rush hour, and the fight begins. MICHAEL CLARK, BICYCLE COMMUTER: There is no sense of sharing. I have to battle for my […]

PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?

By Glenn McAnanama | Feb 20, 2007 | 4 Comments

A few weeks ago I attended the first of the Community Leader meetings for the PlanNYC 2030 Sustainability initiative. I thought Streetsblog readers might be interested in some reflections on this from a neighborhood environmentalist perspective. All and all, I’m extremely happy that this initiative is moving forward and the city is starting to take a long term […]

PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 16, 2007 | 11 Comments

In 2005, PBS came out with a widely promoted documentary narrated by Alanis Morissette called "Global Warming: The Signs and the Science." For people interested in learning more about the topic of global warming and climate change, this DVD is widely available. Being produced and distributed by a well known and highly respected organization, serves […]

Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat

By Jason Varone | Feb 15, 2007 | 12 Comments

A new Columbia University study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, yet again, links livable streets to improved public health. The study reports: "There are relatively strong associations between built environment and Body Mass Index, even in population-dense New York City," said Andrew Rundle, Dr.P.H., lead study author and assistant professor of epidemiology […]

Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn’t Have Died in Vain

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 14, 2007 | 36 Comments

The death of four-year-old James Jacaricce Rice at the intersection of Third Avenue and Baltic Street in Brooklyn yesterday didn’t make a huge splash in the news. But it should have. What were James and his 18-year-old aunt, Ta-Nayin St. John, doing when they were mowed down by a three-ton yellow Hummer making a turn? […]

Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Today on Gotham Gazette, Bruce Schaller outlines how transportation policy could fit in to Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability initiative for 2030. The piece merits a full read, but Schaller frames his argument in terms of three big ideas: [F]ix the skewed economic incentives to drive, implement targeted transit improvements throughout the city, and make more efficient […]

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